Burkina-Press-Review
Burkina: Duration of the Transition and recent terrorist attacks, on the front page of the daily newspapers
Ouagadougou July 5, 2022 (AIB)- This Tuesday’s Burkinabè newspapers largely evoke the recent terrorist attacks, linking them to the reduction in the duration of the Transition in Burkina Faso, decided by the Economic Community of East African States West (ECOWAS).
“Reducing the duration of the Transition in Burkina: Burkinabè citizens give their opinions”, headlines the national daily Sidwaya, reporting the words of the people to whom it gave the floor.
He also recalls that the ordinary ECOWAS summit held on Sunday, July 3, 2022, in Accra, Ghana, decided to review the duration of the Transition to 24 months instead of 36.
According to Alexandre Sankara, ex-MP, who spoke in the columns of the newspaper Le Pays, “it’s good but we can still reduce it to 18 months”.
The same daily reports the opinion of the Secretary General (SG) of the National Organization of Free Trade Unions (ONSL) of Burkina, Paul Kaboré who says: “I do not completely agree with this decision of ECOWAS”. .
“The Transition: Burkinabè less careful regarding the duration than regarding the content”, sports the dean of private Burkinabè daily newspapers, L’Observateur Paalga.
The newspaper reads the reactions of both politicians, civil society actors and ordinary citizens who, on the whole, believe that it is less the delay than the seriousness that is expected in the fight once morest terrorism that imported.
“24 months of Transition in Burkina: assessments of politicians and CSOs”, also displays the newspaper Today in Faso reporting the different opinions of these.
“On the security problem, I think that until now we are not telling each other the truth”, headlines Le Quotidien quoting the former deputy, Saïdou Maïga.
“Mali-Burkina, following the upturn in the 61e ECOWAS summit: 34 killed in Namissiguima and Bourasso in Burkina, water in the mill for skeptical polls? “, wonders, moreover, Today in Faso.
According to L’Observateur Paalga, this terrorist attack in Bourasso, which took place on the night of July 3 to 4, 2022, reported 18 civilians massacred and remains the heaviest toll recorded in the province of Kossi since the start of the security crisis. He also adds that regarding twenty people were killed in Yeou.
In its section ”Political Tuesday”, Le Pays gives the floor to the former deputy and mayor of Solenzo, Désiré Traoré who speaks out on the fight once morest terrorism in Burkina Faso.
According to the interviewee, “there is a need to review our strategy for the acquisition of military equipment and our inter-State cooperation”.
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