This Wednesday's daily newspapers echo the CAN 2023 qualifiers, the 2023-2025 agro-pastoral and fisheries offensive plan and the Koumbri attack in Yatenga which left 53 dead.
The newspaper L'Express du Faso, a private daily published in Bobo-Dioulasso, mentions on its front page: "Province of Yatenga: dozens of terrorists killed, 53 combatants lost".
The newspaper reports that 53 combatants including 17 soldiers and 36 Volunteers for the Defense of the Homeland (VDP) lost their lives during a clash with terrorists in the locality of Koumbri, Yatenga province, on Monday 4 September 2023.
According to the newspaper, it is a precursor unit of the 12th Commando Infantry Regiment (RIC) deployed in the said locality, as part of the reconquest of the premises. And this to allow the population to resettle there, after having left it, more than two years ago, indicates an army press release.
By the way, the private daily Le Pays reports that several dozen terrorists have been neutralized.
He adds that the response operations immediately triggered and supported by several air vectors, also made it possible to neutralize several routed assailants and destroy their combat equipment.
From another angle, the public daily Sidwaya displays: "Agro-pastoral Offensive 2023-2025: the axes of intervention revealed".
The daily indicates that the Minister of Agriculture, Animal and Fisheries Resources hosted a press conference on Tuesday, September 5, 2023 to outline the areas of intervention of the agro-pastoral offensive.
According to Sidwaya, the operational operational action plan has been implemented to address the concerns of the populations in the agriculture and livestock sectors by 2025.
Sidwaya adds that according to the Minister of Agriculture, Animal and Fisheries Resources, Ismaël Sombié, the 2023-2025 agro-pastoral and fisheries offensive is intended to be a set of interventions bringing together production, processing and of the market.
Still according to Sidwaya, the Minister specified that the agro-pastoral offensive will focus on agro-pastoral and fisheries production in order not only to reduce the country's dependence on imports of consumer products, but also to enhance national production potential.
On the same subject, L'Observateur Paalga indicates that at a total cost of 592 billion FCFA, this offensive will focus on eight sectors, namely corn, potatoes, wheat, fish, livestock / meat , poultry and mango.
Under another aspect, the dean of the private dailies L'Observateur Paalga reveals: "CAN 2023 qualifiers: the Stallions begin their internship in Marrakech".
The dean relates that the Stallions will deliver two matches in this ninth month of the year.
For the first meeting, Burkina Faso will face Eswatini on September 8 at the big stadium in Marrakech for the 6th and final day of qualifying for CAN 2023.
Still according to L'Observateur Paalga, 4 days later, the team will travel to France to host Morocco in a friendly match at the Bollaert-Delelis stadium in Lens
Source: Burkina Information Agency