Ouagadougou: The Burkinabè publications this Friday echo the awareness meeting on traffic accidents and the adoption of the new mining code by the deputies of the Transitional Legislative Assembly (ALT).

‘Road insecurity in Burkina Faso, transport companies involved in 1,303 accidents’: headlines the state daily Sidwaya.

According to the public newspaper, the minister in charge of transport, Anûuyirtole Roland Somda, gave the information during a meeting to report statistics on the involvement of public transport vehicles in traffic accidents.

The same newspaper reports that the minister indicated that ‘passenger transport companies must not be coffins for the Burkinabé population’, hence the organization of this consultation framework to raise awareness among transporters.

And the private daily Le pays specifies that according to data relating to accident cases, STAF, TSR, SOTRACO are the companies which occupy the head of the pack.

Therefore, writes the newspaper, these companies should improve their l
evel of security to protect their customers.

For the dean of private daily newspapers, Observateur Paalga, the minister in charge of transport affirmed that road accidents constitute a scourge, an enemy in the same way as terrorism which leaves many families in mourning.

The newspapers were also interested in the plenary of the ALT during which the deputies adopted the new mining code in Burkina.

According to L’Observateur Paalga, the adoption of this law will allow the country to have legislation having a holistic approach to mining activity and the marketing of gold and other mineral substances.

The newspaper informs that during the same session, 12 representatives of political parties were presented and installed.

In the same vein, the state daily Sidwaya specifies that of the 12 new representatives of political parties, 7 are new and 5 already present in the ALT.

Source: Burkina Information Agency