Day: March 27, 2024

Ben Arous: One of those injured in the fire that broke out last March 14 in a depot belonging to the National Company of Oil Distribution (AGIL) in Radès has succumbed to his injuries, AGIL told TAP. "Among those injured, 7 are still hospitalised and are receiving the necessary care," AGIL CEO had told TAP . 38 people were injured in this incident. Source: Agence Tunis Afrique Presse

Ouagadougou: The Burkinabe government announced on Wednesday the creation of a new state company called the Central Purchasing of Generic Essential Medicines and Medical Consumables (CAMEG), with a share capital of 5 billion FCFA, following the dissolution of the CAMEG Association. The first report concerns the creation of a state company called the Central Purchasing of Generic Essential Medicines and Medical Consumables (CAMEG), declared the Minister in charge of Health, Dr. Robert Lucien Jean-Claude Kargougou, upon leaving the Council of Ministers. Dr Kargougou explained that the creation of this state company follows the dissolution of the CAMEG Association by its General Assembly on Friday March 22, 2024. He also maintained that the creation of this state company establishes the sovereign authority of the State in the strategic pharmaceutical sector. 'The creation of this state company should strengthen the governance of CAMEG and improve access to medicines for the population,' added the Minister in charge of Health. The said Council of Ministers also adopted the statutes of the new state company. The state company CAMEG has a share capital of 5 billion FCFA, entirely owned by the State, specifies the first official of the department in charge of Health. Source: Burkina Information Agency

Ouagadougou: The Prime Minister, Me Appolinaire Kyelem de Tambela, on Tuesday invited 'everyone to dress in Faso danfani in kokodonda, to eat local dishes' and to 'be proud to be Burkinabè, the only way to live happily. 'We have no choice, we must be proud to be Burkinabè and from Burkina Faso. This is the only way to live happily,' said Prime Minister Me Appolinaire Kyelem of Tambela. The Prime Minister, Me Appolinaire Kyelem de Tambela, spoke on Tuesday in Ouagadougou, on the occasion of the day of patriotic commitment and citizen participation. On this occasion, Me Kyelem invited 'everyone to dress in Faso danfani in kokodonda and eat local dishes'. 'I think it is time for some people to question themselves and get involved, because if you live in Burkina Faso and you are not proud to be Burkinabè, you are unhappy. If you are a foreigner and you live here in Burkina Faso and you are not proud of Burkina Faso, you are also unhappy. If you are Burkinabè and you are outside and you are not proud of being Burkinabè and of Burkina Faso, you are also unhappy. Because those who are there only accept you because of the service you can provide to them. You don't have your identity,' he insisted. Source: Burkina Information Agency

Ouagadougou: The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Regional Cooperation and Burkinabè Abroad, Karamoko Jean Marie Traoré chaired this Wednesday in Ouagadougou the first session of 2024 of the board of directors of the sector ministerial CASEM 2024 of the department placed under the theme: 'Issues of the emergence of the Alliance of Sahel States in the context of the fight against terrorism: Role of diplomacy'. In the opinion of Minister Traoré, this theme provides the opportunity to examine and understand the challenges of the new organization that is the Alliance of Sahel States (AES) and to 'clear the place and role that must use our diplomacy for its effective operationalization. Furthermore, the session was the place for participants to examine and adopt the 2023 annual activity report, that of the evaluation of the performance of the department's structures, and to work on the activities of 2024. In terms of the department's performance for the year 2023, we note a score of 83% recorded by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Regional Cooperation and Burkinabè Abroad. The Chairman of the Board praised the efforts of all employees for the results achieved, recalling however that challenges remain to be met. Minister Traoré invited the actors in his ministry to redouble their efforts at different levels, with a view to further promoting Burkinabe diplomacy. Source: Burkina Information Agency

Ouagadougou: The daily newspapers this Wednesday deal with the swearing in of new state controllers and the installation of the provost gendarmerie. 'Judicial and military police: The provost gendarmerie installed in its premises', mentions the state daily Sidwaya in its columns. The newspaper reports that Colonel Ernest Kisbédo, representative of the Minister in charge of Defense, chaired yesterday Tuesday in Ouagadougou, with the Chief of Staff of the National Gendarmerie, Lieutenant-Colonel Natama Kouagri, the inaugural ceremony of the infrastructures provost positions within the city gendarmerie brigade of Sigh Noghin. The newspaper adds that the project is estimated at a total cost of more than 6 billion FCFA and it is, according to the donors, a series of infrastructures carried out in the research sections of the city gendarmerie brigades of Sigh-Noghin , Boulmiougou, Bobo-Dioulasso, Kaya. For its part, the private daily Le Pays continued by saying that these infrastructures are modern and equipped with equipment and logistics to facilitate the missions of the provost gendarmerie. The same newspaper adds that according to the words of Lieutenant-Colonel Natama Kouagri, provost cells are integrated into the research service and will be established throughout the national territory. The colleague specifies that the infrastructures created in the research section will be used as part of the provost chain which has been revitalized. From another angle, the public daily Sidwaya displays on the front page of its newspaper: 'State control: 6 new controllers take oath'. The Sidwaya newspaper reported that six new controllers were sworn in before members of the Constitutional Council yesterday Tuesday in the city of Ouagadougou. The state daily adds that from the professional competition, the new controllers should have the mission of fighting corruption and similar offenses, declaration of interest and assets, as well as internal administrative control. For its part, the private daily Le Pays informs that d uring the ceremony, the chief registrar recalled the regulatory provisions, allowing the president of the Constitutional Council to order their swearing in, swearing to exercise their function with integrity, within the ASCE-LC institution. He also continues that Deputy State Controller General Urbain Milogo subsequently wished the new controllers every success in this noble mission of fighting corruption. Source: Burkina Information Agency

Ouagadougou: The government has just reallocated an optical sorter contract worth 183 million FCFA to another company, after canceling the order it had placed with the company Anhui Wentao Intelligent Photoelectronic Technology, which requires, according to the government , 'payment in advance of the entire amount of the order before any start of execution' The Council of Ministers, meeting this Wednesday under the chairmanship of Captain Ibrahim Traora, recalled that 'as part of the implementation of this initiative, the acquisition of optical sorters is planned to achieve the objectives of the component ''Emergency initiative for the intensification of rice cultivation in Burkina Faso on 4000 hectares''. To do this, a contract for a total amount of one hundred and eighty-three million sixty-eight thousand nine hundred and seven (183,068,907) CFA francs including tax was awarded to the company ANHUI Wentao Intelligent Photoelectronic Technology Co. Ltd. which required payment in advance of the entire amoun t of the order before any start of execution. 'However,' continues the government, 'this procedure for releasing resources as desired by the successful bidder does not comply with the regulations on public contracts and public service delegations.' The Burkinabe government has therefore decided to withdraw the contract and reallocate it to the company Nema Agricole du Faso (NAFASO) for an amount of one hundred and eighty-three million and sixty-eight thousand three hundred and eighty (183,068,380) F CFA including tax , with a turnaround time of ninety (90) days. Source: Burkina Information Agency

Ouagadougou: The President of the Republic of Mali, Colonel Assimi Goïta, announced on Wednesday that he had agreed with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin to cooperate more in the fight against terrorism. 'I had a telephone conversation with President Putin. We discussed bilateral issues, particularly the security and economic areas. We have agreed to cooperate further in the fight against terrorism,' President Goïta wrote on his X account on Wednesday. Yesterday Tuesday, the President of the Republic of Niger, General Abdourahamane Tiani, spoke with President Putin on the expansion of strategic, multi-sectoral and global cooperation between their countries, reports the Nigerien presidency. As a reminder, relations have expanded and strengthened between Russia and the countries of the Alliance of Sahel States (Burkina, Mali, Niger) in recent months, as part of the diversification of partnerships desired by presidents Ibrahim Traoré, Assimi Goïta and Abdourahamane Tiani. Source: Burkina Information A gency

Ouagadougou: The Transitional Legislative Assembly (ALT) ratified Tuesday a credit agreement of 71.73 billion FCFA, signed between the government and the International Development Fund (IFAD), for the financing of Program for strengthening the resilience of small producers (RESI-2P), operating in the North and Center-West regions for a period of eight years. According to the rapporteur of the Finance and Budget Commission (COMFIB) of the Transitional Legislative Assembly (ALT), Daaga Nassouri, the project aims to strengthen the resilience of poor small farmers, particularly women, youth, people people with disabilities and internally displaced people . And this, through sustainable investments aimed at food and nutritional security and increased income, reports the state daily Sidwaya this Wednesday. Mr. Nassouri said that the project is structured into three components: 'strengthening the resilience of production systems', 'valorization and competitiveness of sectors' and 'coordination, management, monito ring-evaluation and knowledge management". It will operate in the North and Center-West for a period of eight years. On October 11, 2023, Burkina and the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) signed a financing agreement for the Program for Strengthening the Resilience of Small Producers (RESI-2P). In the Northern region, the program provides for 50,500 direct beneficiaries, divided between 37,956 women, 47,445 young people, 438 people living with disabilities and 12,336 internally displaced persons (IDPs). As for the Center-West region, there are 58,500 people, made up of 45,498 women, 56,873 young people, 658 people living with disabilities and 760 IDPs. The project's target sectors are market garden crops (tomato, onion, pepper), dry cereals (corn, sorghum, millet), cowpea, rice, tubers (cassava and orange-fleshed sweet potato (ODSP)). Poultry farming, pig farming, as well as non-timber forest products (NTFP) such as baobab and moringa are also affected. According to the same source, a t the end of the examination of the bill, the Finance and Budget Committee (COMFIB) estimated that the ratification of the credit agreement will contribute to improving the productivity of the targeted sectors, facilitate the market access through infrastructure development and productive partnerships with market operators. This program will also strengthen the capacities of actors in the target sectors, including knowledge of nutritional practices, facilitate access to agro-climatic information, monitoring of the water table and better land security. However, COMFIB urged the government to be more rigorous in the implementation of projects and programs for greater impact for the benefit of the populations of Burkina, concluded the source. Source: Burkina Information Agency

Nahouri: A traffic accident was the cause, yesterday Tuesday, of the death of two young people (an 18-year-old girl and a 24-year-old boy) and two seriously injured people who were evacuated to the Medical Center with surgical branch (CMA) in Pô and Ouagadougou. The accident occurred yesterday evening Tuesday March 26 around 6 pm on national road No. 25 at the Tiébélé exit towards Pô and caused the death of two young people from Tiébélé (a girl aged 18 years training in a sewing school in Ouagadougou and a boy, 24 years old) and seriously injuring two other people. After the findings of the police, the injured were transferred to the Tiébélé dispensary for treatment then to the CMA of Pô and to Ouagadougou for appropriate care. This accident caused a black Tuesday in the city of a thousand colors, plunged into turmoil and disarray with the disappearance of these young people in the prime of their lives. According to witnesses on site, two motorcycles collided after overtaking a vehicle. This kicked up dus t, reducing visibility of the road. This is a reminder once again of the need to exercise caution in traffic. Source: Burkina Information Agency

Ouagadougou: The Burkinabè economy promotion days will be held this year in Russia, the government announced Wednesday in the Council of Ministers. 'The 2024 edition of the Burkina Faso Economic Days Abroad (JEB) (…) will take place in Russia, indicates the report of the Council of Ministers held this Wednesday in Ouagadougou. 'The Burkina Faso Economic Days abroad organized since 2001 aim to promote the emergence of the private sector and consolidate Burkina Faso's political, economic and commercial relations with the rest of the world. The organization of these days also constitutes a framework for exploring the possibilities of partnership with potential foreign investors with a view to supporting the development of our country", recalls in his report of the council of ministers, the Minister of State, Minister in charge of Communication, Jean Emmanuel Ouédraogo. The date and host city have not yet been specified but the event was the subject of an oral communication from the Minister of Industrial Dev elopment, Trade, Crafts and Small and Medium Enterprises to the council of ministers chaired by the head of state, Captain Ibrahim Traoré . Burkina's economic days abroad were organized in several countries around the world including Ghana, Senegal, Benin, France, Canada, South Korea and Austria Source: Burkina Information Agency