Day: August 31, 2024

The Permanent Secretariat of Non-Governmental Organizations (SPONG) organized, Friday, August 30, 2024, in Manga (Zoundwéogo province), a visibility workshop on the Universal Health Insurance Scheme (RAMU).

The meeting brought together around thirty participants, including officials and agents of the Manga health district, administrative authorities, customary and religious leaders, as well as members of civil society and Health Monitoring Committees (CVS).

“The objective of this meeting is to raise awareness among community representatives and partners who deal with health issues to relay information on RAMU to begin mobilizing communities,” said the project manager at SPONG, Eugène Bakouan.

The Universal Health Insurance Scheme (RAMU), he explained, was designed and implemented to meet a need: “to increase the use of health services and ensure that everyone, everywhere, has access to quality health services without suffering financial difficulties.”

The process, according to him, began in Burkina Faso
since 2008 and, to date, the large-scale operationalization phase has begun after the adoption of the legal and regulatory framework and implementing decrees, as well as the start of pilot implementation phases in four regions.

The visibility meeting initiated in Manga is therefore a platform to urge participants to encourage community engagement for the effective implementation of RAMU at the local level.

“The system is essentially based on a joint and several guarantee, which means that you pay in little by little so that when you fall ill, you don’t have to be asked for money to treat you. So we need to start raising awareness among communities so that they can join the process,” explained Eugène Bakouan.

Continuing, he noted that in addition to communication around RAMU at the level of the Manga health district, participants are expected to begin “to prepare the decentralized services to make diagnoses on what needs to be strengthened in order to have fewer pitfalls in the implementation of the process
.”

The representative of the High Commissioner of Zoundwéogo, Innocents Ouattara, also called for the commitment of the participants.

“I would like to engage you on the paths for the effectiveness of universal health insurance in the Manga health district,” he told the audience.

The RAMU visibility workshop is part of the implementation of the community monitoring project to improve access for vulnerable groups and internally displaced persons to health services, health insurance and social protection in Burkina Faso. This project, implemented in partnership with UNICEF, is scheduled to last from April 2024 to December 2025 and will take place in twenty (20) communes in ten (10) health districts across Burkina Faso.

In the province of Zoundwéogo, these include the communes of Bindé, Guiba, Manga and Gon-Boussougou, which fall under the Manga health district, which benefit from this intervention. The implementation of the project at the local level by SPONG will be done in collaboration with the associatio
ns Zak La Yilguemdé (AZLY) and Teel Taaba.

Source: Burkina Information Agency

Following a traffic accident between two motorcycles which cost the lives of three young people including a girl on the spot, the provincial coordination of the citizen watch of Séno organized a meeting, with a view to seeking endogenous solutions to fatal and recurring traffic accidents in the city of Dori.

The provincial coordination of the citizen watch of Séno organized a meeting in Dori, on Wednesday August 28, 2024, with a view to seeking endogenous solutions to the fatal and recurring traffic accidents in the city of Dori.

On the night of August 27-28, 2024, the populations of the city of Dori were shocked by a serious traffic accident between two motorcycles, resulting in the instant death of three young people, including a girl.

According to the provincial coordinator of the Séno citizen watch, Mr. Abdoulaye Maïga, it was this accident, the origin of which was the speeding of one of the drivers, which led them to organize this meeting with the representatives of the community.

During their inter
view, the participants made an uncompromising diagnosis of road traffic in the city of Dori. According to them, it is characterized by the incivility of some road users and the poor condition of the roads.

As solutions, they proposed raising awareness among young people, but also among parents, for a much more responsible citizenship, the making and installation of speed bumps, the filling of cracks in the roads, the reinforcement of the teaching of the highway code through civic education, the surveillance in the neighborhoods of speeding offenders, as well as the application of financial penalties and even custodial sentences.

The organizers plan to meet with administrative, customary and religious authorities with a view to a vast awareness campaign in local media, places of worship and during gatherings.

Source: Burkina Information Agency

Burkinabe diplomacy reiterated Burkina Faso’s firm condemnation of Ukraine’s admitted subversive actions and once again called on the UN Security Council to assume its responsibilities, Friday at the 50th session of the Council of Foreign Ministers of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), in Yaoundé, Cameroon.

“Burkina Faso has reiterated its firm condemnation of Ukraine’s attitude in making itself an accomplice of the terrorists in northern Mali through various forms of support,” reported the communications service of the Burkinabe Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

The head of Burkinabe diplomacy, Jean Marie Karamoko Traoré, “called on the United Nations Security Council to take its responsibilities and to take all necessary measures in the face of the deliberate and admitted subversive actions of Ukraine in the recent situation in northern Mali,” the same source said.

On August 21, 10 days ago, the foreign ministers of the Confederation of Sahel States called, in a joint letter, on the UN Security C
ouncil to “take responsibility for Ukraine’s deliberate choice to support terrorism”, and this was addressed on Monday to the president of the said council.

In a video related to fighting between the Malian army and terrorists based in northern Mali, the spokesman for Ukrainian intelligence, Andriy Yusov, admitted to having provided information to the CSP group fighters before their clashes with the Malian Armed Forces.

Ukrainian Ambassador to Dakar Yurii Pyvovarov, who shared this video on the embassy’s page, expressed his support for the enemy fighters in Mali.

Source: Burkina Information Agency

The deal between the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) and the new Super Eagles Coach Bruno Labbadia have been aborted.

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the NFF had earlier announced on Tuesday that it had reached an agreement with German tactician, Labbadia to become the Head Coach of the Super Eagles.

However, a statement by Ademola Olajire, NFF’s Director of Communications, on Friday quoted the NFF President, Musa Gusau as saying that the deal between the NFF and Labbadia had been botched.

Gusau explained that stringent regulations of German tax authorities had conspired to abort the agreement between the NFF and Coach Labbadia.

‘We have been on the tax issue for the past three days.

‘I told him clearly that there was no way the NFF will agree to offset the concomitant tax percentage on his salary that will be demanded by German tax authorities.

‘It is not possible for us to shoulder the responsibility of shelling out another money, between 32 per cent to 40 per cent of his salary, after
paying the agreed monthly wage.

‘The NFF and Labbadia reached an agreement in principle before we made the announcement that he would become the Head Coach of the Super Eagles.

‘The tax details were never part of our discussions, and he had personally agreed to all terms before the tax issue came up.

‘We were doing our best to be flexible in the discussions but he was adamant that the NFF had to pay the full tax amount as well. We simply cannot do that,’ Gusau said.

He added that with the latest development, Technical Director of Nigeria Football Federation, Coach Augustine Eguavoen will now take charge of the Super Eagles.

Eguavoen will lead the team for the upcoming 2025 Africa Cup of Nations qualifying matches against Benin Republic in Uyo, Sept. 7 and Kigali, Rwanda Kigali, on Sept. 10.

NAN reports that this would be Eguavoen’s fourth stint in charge of the three-time African champions, after earlier experience in 2005 to 2007, 2010 and 2022.

Source: News Agency of Nigeria

A government delegation, composed of the Minister of Economy and Finance, Aboubakar Nacanabo and the Minister of Secondary Education, Vocational and Technical Training, Boubakar Savadogo, went to Titao for an exchange with the vital forces of the province of Lorum, on August 30, 2024.

Mandated by the President of Faso, Aboubakar Nacanabo and Dr Boubakar Savadogo expressed the compassion and solidarity of the Head of State to the valiant population of Lorum, strongly impacted by the security and humanitarian crisis.

The emissaries of the Head of State paid a vibrant tribute to the fighting forces for the defense of the homeland and to all the components of the vital forces of Lorum, for their resilience.

Aboubakar Nacanabo and Dr Boubakar Savadogo also took stock of the initiatives underway, under the leadership of Captain Ibrahim Traoré, with a view to providing a fair and appropriate response to the security and humanitarian crisis and meeting the expectations of the populations.

The Minister of Economy
and Finance, Aboubakar Nacanabo and the Minister of Secondary Education, Vocational and Technical Training, Dr Boubakar Savadogo also noted the concerns of the populations of Lorum.

They mainly concern the asphalting of the Ouahigouya-Titao road as well as the strengthening of security measures and humanitarian actions.

Aboubakar Nacanabo and Dr Boubakar Savadogo reassured the vital forces of Lorum of the firm commitment of the Transitional government to work for their well-being and to work, on the guidelines of the Head of State, for a total liberation of Burkina Faso.

Source: Burkina Information Agency

On a government tour in the South-West region, a government delegation offered 30 tricycles to stakeholders in the South-West, acquired as part of the presidential initiative for community development.

Composed of the Minister in charge of industry Serge Poda and the Minister in charge of youth Roland Somda, the delegation proceeded with the official handover of the tricycles to the presidents of the Special Delegations of Gaoua and Diébougou.

The equipment will contribute to the execution of works of common interest, such as the construction or rehabilitation of infrastructure, the improvement of the living environment and the preservation of the environment, the strengthening of the capacities of grassroots communities.

The Presidential Initiative for Community Development was adopted on August 30, 2023 by the Council of Ministers. The National Office for Major Projects coordinates the implementation of activities.

Several government missions are currently crisscrossing different areas of the country t
o provide support to the population and to collect their concerns and suggestions with a view to improving government action.

Source: Burkina Information Agency