Bassirou Badjo, an administrator at the General Directorate for National Solidarity and Humanitarian Assistance, DGSAH, was taken from his workplace on Wednesday, grassroots movement Balai Citoyen said.
The perpetrators were "individuals presenting themselves as state security agents" who took him to "an unknown destination," added the grassroots movement.
Since taking power in a 2022 coup, Ibrahim Traore has cracked down on dissent and media, shrinking the civil society space, according to Human Rights Watch.
Several leading activists, lawyers and journalists deemed hostile to his regime have been kidnapped or arrested in recent months.
Badjo had been given conscription orders to join the military regime's anti-jihadist fight. At least a dozen activists, journalists and opposition politicians critical of the junta government were called up in November last year to participate in the campaign to recapture territory from armed Islamist groups that control roughly half the country, according to HRW.
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