The Minister in charge of Solidarity and Humanitarian Action, Nandy Diallo / Somé officially launched on Tuesday, September 5, 2023 in Fada N'Gourma, a training workshop for the benefit of leaders of People Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) and host communities in regions with strong security challenges on the prevention of radicalization, the fight against violent extremism and the technique of mediation and management of local conflicts.
For eight years, Burkina Faso has been facing an unprecedented security crisis with enormous and disastrous consequences.
Indeed, with this difficult security context throughout the national territory, we are witnessing, among other things, an undermining of social cohesion and the erosion of trust within the community.
According to the Minister in charge of Solidarity and Humanitarian Action, Nandy Diallo/Somé, conflicts related to land and the management of political and administrative governance have been accentuated lately in Burkina.
Mrs. Diallo also specified that terrorist acts have had harmful consequences on the life of communities.
According to him, it is in the dynamic of promoting social cohesion in the country that his department initiated these training sessions for the benefit of IDP leaders and host communities on the prevention of radicalization, the fight against violent extremism and local conflicts.
The Minister also noted that these training sessions aim to obtain a common commitment from all these leaders, so that they can contribute to eradicating conflicts in Burkina.
For Nandy Diallo/Somé, the training aims to improve and adapt the different methods of fighting and managing these conflicts according to the regions.
According to the representative of the coalition of nationals of the province of Kompienga, Abdoulaye Koadima, the training session, for the benefit of IDPs and host communities is welcome in the East region.
Mr. Koadima said that the populations are facing kidnappings of their livestock, death threats and loss of human life.
He wished that all the participants be well equipped, in order to be good relays, with their communities on the questions of violent extremism to advocate peace and good living together.
Source: Burkina Information Agency