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Burkina: The arrival of Blaise Compaoré in Ouagadougou widely commented on by the newspapers
Ouagadougou, July 8, 2022 (AIB) – This Friday’s Burkinabé dailies comment extensively on the arrival of former President Blaise Compaoré in Ouagadougou the day before to take part today in the high-level meeting between former Burkinabe heads of state and President Paul-Henri Damiba.
“Arrival of Blaise Compaoré: Such a long… wait in vain at the airport”, features on its headline the dean of private daily newspapers in Burkina Faso, L’Observateur Paalga.
The newspaper reports that as part of the reconciliation process initiated by President Damiba, the former heads of state are to meet today in Burkina for a high-level meeting.
According to the colleague, it is in this sense that Blaise Compaoré set foot on Burkinabe soil aboard a plane chartered by the Ivorian presidency, on July 7, 2022 at 2 p.m.
Same story for the private quotient L’Express du Faso, published in Bobo-Dioulasso which states that eight years following leaving hastily, the Compaoré couple is back in Ouagadougou.
He added that former President Blaise Compaore and his wife Chantal arrived from Abidjan in Ivory Coast, where they have resided since the popular uprising in 2014.
The private Burkinabe newspaper,Aujourd’hui au Faso, for its part, reveals on its front page: “Return of Blaise Compaoré and National Reconciliation: After 8 years of exile, Ziniaré’s enfant terrible returns to the fold”.
In the same dynamic, the state daily Sidwaya takes note of the supporters of former President Compaoré who came out in large numbers to show their joy near the international airport of Ouagadougou on his arrival.
For its part, the private newspaper Le Pays mentions in its Pot-Pourri column that for a meeting between President Damiba and the former heads of state of Burkina Faso, “Yacouba Isaac Zida will not be there”.
For him, for the moment and according to the information, several sources reveal that certain former heads of state would not approve of the approach or the conditions under which they were summoned.
The same newspaper, through the same section, informs that concerning the supposed suspension of arrest for 24 hours of the arrest warrants once morest certain personalities including ex-president Blaise Compaoré, “the Superior Council of the Judiciary denies”.
According to Le Pays, “the president of the Superior Council of the Judiciary (CSM) informs the entire population that the CSM is not involved either directly or indirectly in the publication of a certain Aminata Rachow on its Facebook page and relating to a suspension of the arrest warrant once morest certain people for 24 hours by the CSM”.
Burkina Information Agency
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