Ouagadougou: The daily newspapers of this Friday echo the 34th edition of the final of the 2023 African Cup of Nations (CAN) which will be played on Sunday February 11, 2024 between Ivory Coast, the organizing country and Nigeria, at the Alassane-Ouattara stadium in Ebimpé and Burkina-Venezuela cooperation.'Cooperation-Burkina-Venezuela: A memorandum to facilitate the importation of Venezuelan petroleum products,' reads the state daily Sidwaya on its headline.The public newspaper reports through a document from the department responsible for Foreign Affairs and regional cooperation, the Burkinabè minister, Karamoko Jean Marie Traoré and his Venezuelan oil counterpart, Rafael Tellechia signed on Tuesday February 6, 2024, in Caracas (Venezuela), a memorandum of cooperation.The daily specifies that this act is outside the joint cooperation commission between Burkina Faso and the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela which is currently in full swing.For him, this signature is the realization of a negotiation s tarted last June in Caracas, by the Minister in charge of Trade.The private newspaper Le Pays, for its part, focuses on the Chinese New Year 2024 placed under the sign of the dragon.The speaker maintains that a few hours before the opening of this Chinese festival, the atmosphere already announces the colors of the event.Under another aspect, the same daily comments on the remarks of the former president of Etoile filante d'Ouagadougou (EFO), Mahamadi Lamine Kouanda, on the subject of the CAN 2023 final between Ivory Coast and Nigeria.According to the honorary president of the National Union of Stallion Supporters (UNSE), Mr. Kouanda, 'We have to wait until Sunday to see who has the most fetishes'.The dean of Burkinabè private newspapers, LObservateur Paalga maintains that Nigeria and Ivory Coast confront each other on equal strength while emphasizing that it is a 'Duel of giants between Pachyderms and Raptors'.As for the public newspaper Sidwaya, it looks back on the semi-final of the 2023 Africa n football festival which pitted the Elephants of Côte d'Ivoire against the Leopards of the Democratic Republic of Congo.The state daily indicates that the Elephants beat their opponent on Wednesday February 7, 2024 at the Alassane-Ouattara stadium in Ebimpé d'Abidjan by a goal to Zero.According to Sidwaya, it was a 'euphoric' atmosphere that reigned in Ebimpé after the meeting.Source: Burkina Information Agency
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