Frenchman Jean-Philippe Rémy, 49, who is Africa correspondent for Le Monde, was working with 34-year-old Philip Edward Moore, a British freelance photographer who works regularly for AFP,when they were arrested "while carrying out their mission to inform".
The two Journalists have been released," the Foreign Correspondents' Association of East Africa (FCAEA) said in a statement. "This is a big relief of course, but the incident bodes ill for our work in Burundi."
According to local sources, the pair's press accreditations have been cancelled and their mobile phones have been confiscated by police. These arrests come in the context of grave government repression against journalists, with all the main Burundian private radio stations suspended since May 2015.
