Ouagadougou: This Tuesday’s publications echo the closure of around thirty parishes due to insecurity and the upcoming general states of communication and media.
‘Higher Council of Communication: Soon the general meeting of communication and media’, writes the state daily Sidwaya on its headline.
This newspaper reports that the Head of State, Captain Ibrahim Traoré granted an audience to the college of advisors of the Superior Council of Communication (CSC), led by its president Idrissa Ouédraogo.
The private daily Le Pays, for its part, underlined that at the end of this hearing, ‘Idrissa Ouédraogo also explained that with the new law, the responsibilities of the Superior Council of Communication have expanded, requiring a modernization of the institution.’
The dean of private dailies, L’Observateur Paalga, for his part, writes that according to Mr. Ouédraogo, the institution intends to work upstream to accomplish its missions.
‘And to do this ‘it would be useful for us to start with the general stateme
nts of communication and the media to ensure that all the actors can talk to each other and that the points of obstacles are identified and removed together and in a consensual manner », indicated the president of the CSC according to the same newspaper.
The same newspaper writes on its front page, ‘Insecurity in Burkina: around thirty parishes closed or inaccessible’.
Observer Paalga informs that at the end of the second ordinary assembly of the Burkina-Niger Episcopal Conference (CBN) 2024, it appears that due to the security crisis, around thirty parishes remain closed or inaccessible.
For the newspaper, as they usually do every year, in the month of February, the CBN bishops met from February 12 to 18, 2024 in Kaya.
‘The overview of the life of the dioceses reveals, despite the notorious efforts of the FDS and the VDP, a situation of persistent insecurity whose impact on the life of its particular Churches has very damaging consequences,’ informs the private daily Le Pays.
Source: Burkina Informatio
n Agency