Day: July 1, 2024

Ouagadougou: The head of Tunisian diplomacy Nabil Nammar assured Monday that legal migrants from Burkina Faso and other African countries are welcome in his country. He called for a joint fight against mafia gangs, which profit from illegal migration.

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Cooperation: the Minister in charge of Foreign Affairs of Tunisia at the President of Faso

(Ouagadougou, July 1, 2024). The President of Faso, Captain Ibrahim TRAORE granted an audience this Monday morning to the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Migration and Tunisians Abroad, Nabil AMMAR. The Tunisian minister is in Ouagadougou for the 8th session of the Burkina Faso-Tunisia joint commission.

With the Head of State, ‘I was able to discuss the commitment of both parties to boost cooperation and bilateral ties between Tunisia and Burkina Faso,’ declared Nabil AMMAR who praised the excellence of the cooperation between the two countries.

According to him, ‘these relations, which h
ave always been excellent and fraternal between people and countries, can only develop further.’ As part of the 8th session of the joint commission, he mentioned the presence of a large ministerial delegation and the president of Tunisian employers accompanied by a delegation of businessmen, “to give concrete expression to this session and raise our bilateral relations to a higher level.’

The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Migration and Tunisians Abroad, Nabil AMMAR also discussed international politics with President Ibrahim TRAORE. On a bilateral level, discussions focused on health repatriation and the development of health cooperation, without forgetting the migration issue.

‘All legal migrations from Burkina and other African countries are absolutely welcome; they should even be encouraged and developed in our two countries. It goes in the direction of the development of the economy of the two countries and of our relations,’ indicated Nabil AMMAR. He also called on all countries to coordinate their effo
rts to fight together against mafia gangs, which profit from illegal migration.

‘We cannot accept that our children, whether they are Burkinabè, Tunisian or other African nationalities, are the victims of these mafia networks. We must not give in to the media campaign which is carried out solely to put certain countries in difficulty, for political interests,’ concluded Minister Nabil AMMAR.

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Ouagadougou: The final of the 37th edition of the Coupe du Faso is postponed to a later date, announced the Burkinabè Football Federation in a press release of which the AIB had a copy.

‘The Burkinabè Football Federation (FBF) informs the sporting public that the final of the 37th edition of the Coupe du Faso is postponed to a later date,’ the Burkinabè Football Federation announced on Monday.

The supreme body of Burkinabè football added in its press release without giving details on the postponement that ‘the new date will be communicated later’.

The final of the Faso Cup between EFO and Rahimo FC was scheduled to be played on July 6 at the Issoufou Joseph Conombo municipal stadium in Ouagadougou.

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Ouagadougou: Retired Colonel-Major Oumarou Sawadogo will present his candidacy for the election of the president of the Burkinabè Football Federation (FBF) on behalf of the Sports Union of the Armed Forces (USFA), announced the military club in a press release sent to the AIB.

‘As part of the upcoming elections for the presidency of the Burkinabè Football Federation (FBF), the Sports Union of the Armed Forces has the honor to inform public opinion that it will present a candidate in the person of Colonel-Retired Major Oumarou Sawadogo,’ announced the USFA press release.

The military team specifies that its candidate is ‘carrier of an ambitious project for the development of Burkinabè football’, adding that it ‘will undertake consultations in the coming days with the districts, leagues and clubs of our football in order to obtain more membership around this candidacy.

Oumarou Sawadogo is a former central director of the army sports service. He was also president of the USFA Executive Committee for 5 years.

T
his is not the first time that a Burkinabe army officer has run for the presidency of the FBF. Colonel Souley Mohamed, Colonel (at the time) Nabéré Traoré and Colonel Sita Sangaré chaired the supreme body of Burkinabè football.

The election of the president of the FBF is scheduled to take place on August 31.

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Ouagadougou: Every three years, on June 30, the musician Floby releases an album. This June 30, 2024, he presented his seventh album to his music lovers entitled ‘Burkina Faso’.

The dedication of this album took place on Sunday June 30, 2024 in Ouagadougou at the National Museum. Composed of 18 tracks, this album is distinguished by its diversity and musical richness.

Among the flagship songs, we find titles like ‘Mi Gou Wama’, ‘Burkina Faso’, ‘Béni-les’, ‘Fatimata’.

The album also includes collaborations with other artists, including Audrey from Burkina Faso and Meiitod from France.

As a reminder every three years, on June 30, the artist releases an album. His very first album was released in 2006. Today he celebrates 18 years of musical career.

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Ouagadougou: The Prime Minister of Burkina Faso, Me Apollinaire Kyelem de Tambèla, affirmed Monday that most of those who are fighting the Transition are acting out of revenge because they asked in vain for positions.

‘What you may not know is that, from the first hours of this regime, most of them offered their services to the current authorities in vain. Knowing their duplicity, no follow-up was given to them. Some waited in vain to be approached.

It was therefore out of spite, out of a spirit of revenge, and to satisfy base ambitions that they threw all their strength into the fight against the regime.

They have no project to propose, apart from that of putting Burkina back into the chains of servitude, and to mess around again in complete freedom with the terrorists, at the price of the blood of the Burkinabè,’ said Mr. Apollinaire Kyelem on Monday. of Tambèla.

He was speaking during the monthly raising of colors at the Prime Minister’s office.

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The president of the special delegation of the commune of Pô, Ilassa Dianda, chaired, on Friday June 28, 2024, the 2nd ordinary session of the year 2024 of the said commune. They adopted deliberations of an administrative and financial nature.

The special delegation of the municipality of Pô held its 2nd ordinary session of the year 2024 on Friday June 28, 2024 in Pô.

The president of the special delegation of the commune of Pô, Ilassa Dianda invited the members of the special delegation to frank and fruitful discussions in order to identify their strengths and weaknesses with a view to a prospective analysis of their action at the head of the community.

For the special report of the president of the special delegation, it was the secretary general of the town hall Hamidou Zongo who presented it.

In his opinion, the town hall services carried out the missions assigned to them despite some difficulties encountered.

As for the financial situation, he continued, the mobilization of own revenues saw a declin
e compared to the previous year.

This is why Mr. Dianda invited each member, municipal staff and technical services to an individual and collective commitment to consolidate the achievements and implement the financial deliberations which are experiencing difficulties in their application.

During this session, the members examined and adopted deliberations, the most important of which were the authorization to subdivide the village of Tiakané located approximately 7 km west of the town of Pô, the opening of a professional competition for the recruitment of agents to be trained at the national school of administration and judiciary (ENAM) and the change of name of the municipal high school of Pô which will now bear the name of the first mayor of the commune ‘Doudououra Amadou Kora”.

Ilassa Dianda praised the team spirit which prevailed throughout this session and the contribution of the technical services which spared no effort to support the special delegation.

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Ouagadougou: Today’s publications echo the election for the presidency of the Burkinabè Football Federation (FBF), the presentation of the credentials of new diplomats to the President of Faso, Captain Ibrahim Traoré and the inauguration of several road, health and educational infrastructures in the Eastern region.

‘Eastern Region: Around 60 billion FCFA invested,’ reads the front page of the public newspaper Sidwaya.

The state daily reports that the chief of staff (DIRCAB) of the President of Faso, Captain Anderson Medah, inaugurated on Friday June 28, 2024 in Fada N’Gourma, in the Eastern region, several road and health and educational infrastructures.

According to him, this inauguration ceremony in the ‘city of Yendabli’ took place in the presence of a strong governmental and legislative delegation with the participation of the resident representative of the World Bank in Burkina Faso, Hamoud Abdel Wedoud Kamil.

By the way, the dean of Burkina Faso’s private dailies, L’Observateur Paalga, for his part,
maintains that ‘Fada shines brightly’.

The colleague specifies that these infrastructure projects fall within the framework of the Emergency Territorial Development and Resilience Project (PUDTR) financed by the World Bank.

On another note, the public newspaper Sidwaya informs that ten new diplomats presented their credentials to the President of Faso, Captain Ibrahim Traoré, on Friday June 28, 2024 in Ouagadougou.

The private daily L’Express du Faso, published in Bobo-Dioulasso, indicates that the presentation of the said letters proves that Burkina Faso is indeed a good place to visit.

‘Election for the presidency of the FBF: Lazare Banssé is not a candidate for his own succession,’ informs the private newspaper Le pays on its headlines.

According to him, the elective general meeting of the president of the executive committee of the FBF is scheduled to be held on Saturday August 31, 2024.

For Le Pays, the president of the FBF, Lazare Banssé, in an address to the players and the world of football, dec
ided not to be a candidate for his own succession.

L’Observateur Paalga believes that after having spent 4 years at the head of the Burkinabe football umbrella, Mr. Banssé believes that we must give a chance to the reconciliation of football players.

On this subject, the Bobolais newspaper, L’Express du Faso writes: “Finally, we understand why Banssé is not a candidate”

Source: Burkina Information Agency

Ouagadougou: The Secretary General of the Government and the Council of Ministers, Mathias Traoré, launched on Thursday a series of training sessions for the benefit of 130 agents of his department, with a view to better managing the careers of civil service agents.

130 agents from the general secretariat of the government and the Council of Ministers divided into 4 socio-professional groups will benefit, from July 1 to 24, 2024, from strengthening their knowledge.

This training, focused on career management and public service ethics, will help sharpen the sense of responsibility of agents of the general secretariat of the government and the Council of Ministers.

According to the first head of the department, Mathias Traoré, this training is part of the desire of the President of Faso, Captain Ibrahim Traoré to provide the administration with competent and conscientious public agents.

Mathias Traoré assured that in the long term, these skills-building sessions will allow secretarial staff to no longer mak
e mistakes through ignorance in the exercise of their profession.

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Ouagadougou: The Kingdom of Sweden intends to close its diplomatic representations in Burkina Faso and Mali before the end of 2024 and wishes to open another, in 2025, in Senegal, due to ‘a strategic review’ of its presence in West Africa, the AIB learned on Monday.

‘The Swedish government took the decision on June 20, 2024 to close the Swedish embassies in Ouagadougou (Burkina Faso) and Bamako (Mali). The closure of the two embassies should be completed by the end of the current year,’ the Swedish embassy in Ouagadougou responded in an email to the AIB on Monday.

According to the same source, ‘this decision is the consequence of a strategic review of Sweden’s diplomatic presence in West Africa’.

‘Sweden believes that, in order to better address cross-border challenges in terms of development and security, its commitment to the Sahel and West Africa must now be characterized by a more assertive regional approach,’ we still read in the e-mail.

‘In order to maintain effective and visible engagement in the S
ahel and strengthen Sweden’s involvement in West Africa, the government intends to establish an embassy in Dakar (Senegal) with a broad geographical and thematic mandate . Sweden is currently holding discussions with Senegal on the conditions of this opening and hopes that it will take place in 2025,’ added the embassy in its note.

However, Sweden says it wants to maintain its long-standing bilateral relations with Burkina Faso and Mali.

As a reminder, Burkina Faso, under the leadership of Captain Ibrahim Traoré, has opted for diplomacy open to all countries that respect its sovereignty and in a win-win spirit in all areas of cooperation.

On June 28, 2024, ten new ambassadors from Germany, Russia, the United States of America, Algeria, Venezuela, Rwanda, the Kingdom of Spain, Guinea-Bissau, of Poland and Pakistan, presented their credentials to the President of Faso.

Source: Burkina Information Agency

Ouagadougou: The Ministry of Agriculture announced the arrest of five people in Nayala, following the theft of 12.5 tonnes of fertilizer.

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