Burkina: Towards legal recognition of religious and customary marriages

Ouagadougou: The Burkinabè government adopted on Wednesday a bill relating to the new Personal and Family Code, which will offer the possibility of transcribing religious and religious marriages in civil status registers. customary.This Family Code in the making introduces innovations relating, among other things, to 'the possibility of transcribing religious and customary marriages with a view to placing them under the authority of the Personal and Family Code', specifies the report of the Council of Ministers this Wednesday.According to the same source, it also offers the possibility of registering birth certificates in digital registers and using appropriate technologies for the registration of civil status events.It specifies that the establishment and proof of Burkinabè nationality is done only by the nationality certificate.In addition, it criminalizes homosexuality and similar acts and practices.According to the government, this bill will make it possible to make available to all the Burkinab è people and legal practitioners an updated Family Code, responding to the social values ??of 'our country' and in compliance with certain international conventions.The Council therefore agreed to the transmission of the said bill to the Transitional Legislative Assembly, concludes the report of the Council of Ministers.Source: Burkina Information Agency