Burkina: Sport, support from Japan and infrastructure commented on by daily newspapers

The Burkinabè newspapers in their publications on Tuesday deal with the construction site of the Bobo-Dioulasso Radiotherapy Center, the support of Japan in Burkina and especially the gold medal won by Hugues Fabrice Zango at the World Athletics Championships.

The public daily Sidwaya mentions on its headline: “World Championships in athletics: Historic gold for Hugues Zango”.

For him, history will remember that Hugues Fabrice Zango is the first athlete to offer Burkina Faso its first gold medal at the world athletics championships.

Sidwaya adds that the Burkinabè athlete made a jump of 17.64m during the World Championships in Budapest, Hungary, which allowed him to outclass his two main competitors in the final, Cubans Lazaro Martinez, silver medalist (17, 41m) and Cristian Napoles (17.40m).

“Budapest Athletics World Championships: Hugues Fabrice Zang’OR”, features the dean of private Burkinabè daily newspapers, L’Observateur Paalga, who informs that “the Burkinabe kangaroo had to wait for the 5th try to get rid of the Cubans who had taken the lead in the competition with jumps of 17.40 m and 17.4 1 m”.

The newspaper adds by saying that the Burkinabè triple jumper went from 17.37 to 17.64 m.

On the same subject, the private newspaper Le Pays adds that Zango took first place in the absence of the star of the discipline, the Portuguese Cristian Pichardo, and after the injury of the young Jamaican prodigy, Jaydon Hibbert, victim of a problem muscle during competition.

From another angle, L’Observateur Paalga reveals on its front page: “Human capital development: Japan receives nearly 112 million FCFA”.

According to the newspaper, as part of its cooperation program “Donations to local micro-projects contributing to human security”, the Japanese Embassy in Burkina has signed two donation contracts amounting to 111,860,000 FCFA with Niban associations. zoéré and Action jeunesse for the construction of a maternity hospital in Koulnatenga, in the rural commune of Kokologho.

He also informs that this donation will also be used for the construction of additional classes at the general education college of Sandogo, in the city of Ouagadougou.

In the same vein, the national daily Sidwaya notes that the implementation period of the project is planned for 12 months and that the Japanese ambassador to Burkina Faso, Masaaki Kato urged the leaders of the two associations to take the necessary measures to these infrastructures are functional after their completion.

Still in the field of infrastructure, the national daily title: “Bobo-Dioulasso radiotherapy center: Minister Robert Kargougou’s anger”.

Sidwaya informs that the minister in charge of health is not satisfied with the progress of the construction site of the radiotherapy center of Bobo-Dioulasso, located in the Medical Center with surgical antenna (CMA) of Dafra.

L’Express du Faso, the private daily published in Bobo Dioulasso continues by saying that during this site visit by Minister Robert Kargougou, on August 19, he noticed that the execution rate is 30%.

He added that the Minister deplores the progress of the work because during his last visit to the site there was an execution rate of 25% and months later the execution rate is 30%.

Source: Burkina Information Agency