Religion, health and justice share the front page of Burkinabe dailies

The Burkinabè newspapers, in their deliveries this Friday, evoke the news relating to justice and the decision of the Council of Ministers relating to the intervention of public health workers in the private sector , without forgetting religion, marked by the return of Hajj pilgrims in 2023.

“Hajj 2023: 430 pilgrims back home,” the front page of the private daily Le Pays reports that the first contingent of Burkinabè pilgrims arrived at Ouagadougou international airport on July 5.

He specifies that the 430 pilgrims who make up this 1st wave were welcomed on the tarmac by the Minister Delegate for Security, Mahamadou Sana.

For its part, L’Observateur Paalga, the dean of private dailies in Burkina Faso, adds that in addition to Minister Sana, “were also at the foot of the plane, officials from the Federation of Islamic Associations of Burkina (FAIB) and the Follow-up Committee for the pilgrimage to Mecca”.

The newspaper sports the headline: “Hajj 2023: Happy as a + ladji + who has just returned from Mecca”, where Today in Faso mentions: “The first 430 Burkinabè pilgrims return home”.

Among the extracts from the report of the Council of Ministers, held yesterday Thursday, put on its front page, Today in Faso lets read “the regulation of the interventions of public health workers in the private sector”.

In this regard, L’Express du Faso, a private daily published in Bobo-Dioulasso, highlights on its front page: “Public health workers in the private sector: You now have 8 hours a week”.

And the Bobolais newspaper emphasizes that the decision from the Council of Ministers yesterday Thursday, specifies that public health workers can only intervene 8 hours a week in the private sector, either in one day or in two half-days.

It is right that Sidwaya, the national daily, headlines: “Council of Ministers: the interventions of public health workers in the private sector regulated”, while Le Pays notes that “the government wants to put order”.

In its weekly column ”Pot-pourri”, Le Pays returns to the trial relating to the call to burn down the palace of Mogho Naaba which is being held at the High Court of Ouagadougou (TGI).

The daily observes that “the fate of Marcel Tankoano (the alleged mastermind in this affair; Editor’s note) and company (will be) known today”.

The Observer Paalga also talks about justice, in its column ”A Letter for Laye” where it informs that the name of Lieutenant-Colonel Emmanuel Zoungrana was cited in another case of attempted destabilization, “while he is languishing at the Army’s house of arrest and correction (for months).

The dean of private Burkinabè dailies publishes, in extenso, a reaction (press release) from the family of Lt-Col Zoungrana to deny his participation in such a project.

Source: Burkina Information Agency