Ouagadougou: The Burkinabè army dropped new missiles of 'terrifying' power this Friday on terrorists who thought they were safe in a dense forest in the Center-North, according to security sources. The air vectors of the Burkinabè army have been monitoring movements in a major terrorist base in Kalamba, in the Center-North, for several days. The pilots were hesitant to take action because the missiles usually used risked not hitting the targets due to the very dense nature of this small forest. After making final adjustments, they decided to use the newly arrived new types of 'terrifyingly powerful' missiles. So, this Friday, March 29, 2024 at 11:18 a.m. sharp, while the terrorists thought they were safe, a large ball of fire tore through the skies to exterminate them. To be clear, a Special Forces commando was airlifted to the scene. The conclusion is clear: the base is completely destroyed, proof of the effectiveness of the new missiles. According to our sources, the army will continue to hunt down te rrorists in their last entrenchments, whether they are extremely thick forests or not Source: Burkina Information Agency
Burkina/Covid 19: The government wants to learn lessons from the response plan
Ouagadougou: As part of the global coalition to evaluate the impact of Covid-19, the national evaluation commission organized on Friday a workshop to evaluate the national plan to combat the Covid-19 pandemic in order to learn lessons to face future crises. 'The interest of this evaluation is to draw all the lessons in terms of effectiveness, of the proposals that have been made but also in terms of the methods used which could guarantee, for future crises, better management,' indicated the first vice-president of the national evaluation commission, Larba Issa Kobyagda, during the launching ceremony of the evaluation of the national plan to combat Covid-19 in Ouagadougou. Mr. Kobyagda stressed that this evaluation is independent and is carried out by the national consultancy office Nazan, whose mission is to analyze the relevance, coherence, effectiveness, efficiency and viability of all the measures taken by the government to respond to the Covid-19 pandemic. 'This office should be able to interact with a ll stakeholders, in particular the executive secretariat and the 5 sub-committees who worked during the implementation of the response plan against Covid-19, as well as the populations who experienced this crisis ', he clarified. Larba Issa Kobyagda also indicated that this assessment is part of the global coalition to assess the impact of Covid-19. According to the representative of the World Bank's global initial assessment within the coalition, Miché Ouédraogo, this global coalition aims to support countries to evaluate and learn from the measures put in place in order to take more effective measures for future crises. 'By launching the global evaluation initiative, the World Bank aims to support countries in strengthening their evaluation capacities and to support governments in having conclusive data for decision-making in management and the implementation of public policies,' he added. Larba Issa Kobyagda stressed that from what will be considered as limits at the end of the assessment, it will be u p to the government to take measures to guarantee a more effective response system to future crises. According to Mr. Kobyagda, Burkina Faso recorded 22,453 cases of Covid-19 with 396 deaths between March 9, 2020 and April 30, 2023. Source: Burkina Information Agency
Kompienga: The mission manager of the Eastern region visits Pama
The mission manager of the Eastern region, Dr Boalidioa Tankoana, visited Pama, the capital of the Kompienga province, on Monday March 25, 2024, to encourage the population of this province plagued by terrorist attacks for two years.
Pama, the capital of the Kompienga province, received a visit on Monday March 25, 2024, from the mission manager of the Eastern region, Dr Boalidioa Tankoana.
He met traditional people, young people, heads of administrative services, women and citizen monitoring units.
The aim of the visit is to encourage the population of this province which has been plagued by terrorist attacks for two years.
The population thanked the President of the Transition, Captain Ibrahim Traoré and all of the FDS and VDP for supplying the province with food and various goods through convoys.
They also welcomed the return of town hall, livestock and agriculture officials.
The supply of the province through another convoy before the start of the winter was requested from the Project Manager.
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y’s host, Dr Boalidioa Tankoana reassured people that their concerns will be passed on to the appropriate person.
Source: Burkina Information Agency
Nahouri: Dakola border police station now meets international standards
The Minister Delegate, responsible for Security, Divisional Police Commissioner Mahamadou Sana, chaired the official launching ceremony on March 28, 2024 in Dakola, a locality located on the border of Burkina Faso and Ghana. border police station service, built by the International Organization for Migration (IOM) and its partners.
The Dakola border police station, inaugurated on March 28, 2024, by the Minister Delegate in charge of Security, Divisional Police Commissioner Mahamadou Sana, was carried out thanks to the project for the construction of border police stations in Burkina Faso.
According to the representative of the International Organization for Migration (IOM), Hamidou Dipama, the construction of the infrastructure was made possible thanks to the good collaboration between the government of Burkina and the international organization for migration.
‘It will enable staff to comply with international standards in migration management, including the treatment of passengers,’ he said.
The creatio
n of this jewel with various equipment installed, including the integrated computerized management tool for migration data (MIDAS), will give pride to border populations in being Burkinabè on the one hand, and on the other hand, restore the image of Burkina Faso.
The president of the special delegation of the commune of Pô, Ilassa Dianda and the representative of the traditional chief of Dakola, Salif Ayiyaré Koudoguèri, explained that Dakola appears as a showcase for the country.
The Minister Delegate, responsible for Security, praised the strong mobilization and musical expressions of the populations of Dakola for the occasion.
He indicated that border post personnel are frontline actors and their commitment and sacrifice contribute to improving security gains in remote areas.
The Divisional Police Commissioner, Mahamadou Sana, congratulated the IOM and its partners for their renewed confidence in Burkina Faso despite the negative assessment that some make of Burkina.
He ended by showing his appreciati
on for the tireless efforts shown by the combat units engaged in the reconquest of the national territory.
Sana is committed to rational management with the actors involved in the management of this infrastructure and equipment.
Before the start of the ceremony, the customary authorities of Dakola blessed the building and prayed for the fighting forces engaged in the reconquest of the national territory.
The official ceremony also marks the commissioning of the border posts of Hamélé and Kosso, in the South-West region, and Lan in the Center-West region.
Source: Burkina Information Agency
Good Friday’: Catholics in Burkina fervently relive the sufferings of Christ
Ouagadougou: A thousand miles and 2,000 years later, the Catholic faithful of the Saint-André de Saaba parish relived, this Friday, with fervor, the commemoration of the crucifixion and death of Jesus-Christ, noted the AIB.
At the Saint-André de Saaba parish, on the northern outskirts of Ouagadougou, we are far from the real crucifixion scenes that take place every ‘Good Friday’ in the Philippines, but quite close to the sacredness that the commemoration of the death of Jesus Christ for the Catholics of the world.
Very early on Friday, the faithful gathered on the steps of their church to experience a Stations of the Cross perfectly mimed by the parish youth.
During fourteen long stations, the ‘Jesus’ of the day was mistreated, beaten and humiliated from his arrest, through his judgment to his crucifixion.
The ‘Roman soldiers’ did not pull their punches. At the seventh station, their brutality caused ‘Jesus’ to waddle with his cross and eventually collapse a second time.
The shrill and permanent cries of
the women who accompanied their ‘Savior’, mixed with the ‘atrocities’ suffered, moved a large part of the crowd, confusing reality with acting worthy of the great theater schools.
We could see that some were crying while others hid their faces to no longer experience this updated ‘barbarity’.
The priest urged the faithful to relive throughout the day the mystery of the crucifixion and death of Jesus Christ.
Above all, he invited them to learn the lessons conveyed, namely, among other things, obedience to God, love and the sacrifices to be made for their neighbors.
After this day of ‘mourning’, Catholics will go through ‘the great silence’ on Saturday and celebrate on Sunday the ‘victory’ of Jesus Christ over death
Source: Burkina Information Agency
Burkina/security: The slammer Otemptic invites the Burkinabè to patriotism through her single
Ouagadougou: Burkinabè slammer Adjaratou Kabré alias Otemptic invites Burkinabè people through her single ‘De tous les couleurs’ to patriotism to better fight against terrorism which has been plaguing Burkina Faso for almost 10 years.
She is unarmed. She is a lyricist and only has the words to add her touch to the fight against the terrorist hydra. ‘Of all colors’ raises awareness and leads every Burkinabè to ask questions.
‘When I talk about colors here, I talk much more about the behavior of each Burkinabè, what behavior we adopt in the face of the security situation. Being Burkinabè, being patriotic, are we an observer, actor or spectator of this situation,’ asked the artist Otemptic to explain the meaning of his single.
The talented Otemptic is a master’s student in conflict management and peace building and also a Disk Jockey (DJ) and the phrase that sticks to her lips is ‘may peace truly return to Burkina Faso’.
She says she has opted for slam since 2019 because in her opinion ‘slam, beyond a passio
n, is a weapon of awareness’.
The justice-loving artist would like to work in a humanitarian organization ‘because my biggest dream is to be useful to my community’.
The young musical artist with great ambitions has only one single on the disc market. The release of the clip ‘Of all the colors’ is scheduled for April 13 on YouTube. An album is almost complete and will be released on June 28, God willing.
Source: Burkina Information Agency
Laying of the first stone of the IRO-TEXTBURKINA industrial complex: the Head of State arrived in Sourgou
Ouagadougou: The President of the Transition, Head of State, Captain Ibrahim TRAORE arrived this Friday morning in Sourgou, Boulkiemdé province, Center-West region where he will lay the first stone of a textile industrial complex of the company IRO-TEXBURKINA SA.
The construction of this textile industrial complex aims to develop the Burkinabè cotton value chain through the supply of textile products (yarns, fabrics, clothing, medical products).
The new factory will also create around 5,000 direct jobs and thousands of indirect jobs.
Source: Burkina Information Agency
Certification of CSOs as well as the Christian faith are in the headlines of the day
Ouagadougou: This Friday’s publications echo the certification of CSOs in Burkina with a view to cleaning up the environment, as well as the resurrection of Christ, making the headlines of the day’s publications.
Resurrection of Christ ‘it is the hard core of the Christian faith’, headlines the newspaper Le Pays.
The newspaper specifies that according to Father Paul Dah, after 40 days of penance and prayer, the Catholic faithful will celebrate Easter or the resurrection of Christ, on March 31.
The private daily L’Observateur Paalga adds to the words of Abbé Silvère Pingdwendé who informs that “in the Christian faith the triumph of Christ makes death appear as the end of a mission, the earthly one, and the opening of a mission, the earthly one, and the opening towards an encounter, that with the creator.’
In another register, the private daily Le Pays displays on its headline ‘certification of CSOs in Burkina: A process to clean up the environment’.
The newspaper informs that the permanent secretariat of
non-governmental organizations (SPONG) and the Burkinabè fundraising association (ABF) initiated a meeting between civil society organizations (CSO) and non-governmental organizations (NGO), on March 28, 2024 in Ouagadougou
The objective of this meeting was to agree on the certification process of Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) and NGOs operating in Burkina Faso.
For its part, L’Observateur Paalga indicates that with a view to positively changing the environment of Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) and development associations in Burkina Faso, the Burkinabè fundraising association has developed a new program called “Giving for change’ with the support of the Dutch NGO which works to support CSOs in their activities for endogenous community development through capacity building for the mobilization of local resources
Source: Burkina Information Agency
Burkina: ALT offers an extracorporeal circulation machine to the Tengandogo University Hospital for cardiac operations
Ouagadougou: The Transitional Legislative Assembly (ALT) on Thursday offered an extracorporeal circulation machine to the Tengandogo University Hospital Center (CHU-T) to contribute to the improvement of the technical platform for cardiac operations at the Burkina Faso.
‘This donation aims to contribute to improving the technical platform for cardiac operations in Burkina Faso,’ inform the communications services of the Ministry of Health.
For Dr Adama Sawadogo, cardiovascular surgeon at the Tengandogo University Hospital Center (CHU-T), this is a latest generation device which will allow the Tengandogo hospital to go beyond routine operations and to carry out more complex operations which could, one day, go as far as heart transplantation.
Thanks to this extracorporeal circulation machine, the Tengandogo University Hospital has been able to successfully operate on 40 people with open hearts since the end of October, he said.
According to the President of the Transitional Legislative Assembly (ALT), Dr Ou
smane Bougouma, thanks to this machine, Burkina Faso becomes the second country in the sub-region to have a technical platform capable of performing open heart surgery. .
Dr Bougouma also stressed that this equipment will help avoid certain medical evacuations, which will allow the State to make savings.
The Minister of Health and Public Hygiene, Dr. Robert Kargougou, expressed his gratitude to the President of the Transitional Legislative Assembly for this delivery of equipment to the CHU-T.
Source: Burkina Information Agency
IRO-TEXBURKINA textile complex in Sourgou: a factory to rehabilitate the industrial fabric in the Center-West
Ouagadougou: The President of the Transition, Head of State, Captain Ibrahim TRAORE, launched construction work on a textile complex called ‘IRO- TEXBURKINA.
The construction of this industrial unit is in line with the vision of the Head of State who announced it last January during his stay in Koudougou. ‘This area was the very foundation of the first processing unit; it was appropriate that a cotton processing unit could be established there,’ declared the President of the Transition, Captain Ibrahim TRAORE.
Burkina Faso has embarked on ‘a process of industrialization. In all areas of Burkina that have specific characteristics, we will do everything possible to transform our products locally,’ he maintained. According to Captain TRAORE, it is through industrialization ‘that we can create enough jobs so that young people can flourish’.
The Head of State also indicated that the government is committed to this project with the Burkinabè Textile Fiber Company (SOFITEX), the Burkina Faso Economic and Social D
evelopment Fund (FBDES) and the National Union of Cotton Producers of Burkina Faso. (UNPCB).
He hoped that the project could be executed quickly and well in strict compliance with the requirements of the specifications. Also, he asked the populations to take ownership of the project.
IRO-TEXBURKINA will build a unit on an area of 42 hectares in Sourgou and another of 50 hectares in Boromo with a total investment of 165 billion FCFA. Ultimately, this textile complex will create more than 4,000 direct jobs and 15,000 indirect jobs for the two sites.
The Head of State has, once again, invited economic operators who wish to come and invest in Burkina Faso. He reassured them of the government’s commitment to supporting their initiatives through the facilities that will be granted to them
Source: Burkina Information Agency