2023-07-31 17:25:53
Burkina-Review-Press
Report of the Russia-Africa summit, coup d’etat in Niger and the affair of the healer Adja de Komsilga on the menu of the Burkinabè daily newspapers
Ouagadougou, July 31, 2023 (AIB) – This Monday’s dailies deal with the case of the healer Adja Amsétou Nikiema, the coup d’etat in Niger and Burkina Faso’s participation in the 2nd Russia-Africa summit.
The public daily Sidwaya mentions on its front page: “Russia-Africa Summit: ”The people of Burkina Faso have decided to fight against the terrorist hydra to relaunch their development”, Captain Ibrahim Traoré”.
The newspaper informs that the president of the transition captain Ibrahim Traoré in his speech at the opening of the 2nd “Russia-Africa” summit, last Friday, wished the establishment of better relations with the Russian Federation which can meet the needs populations.
According to the newspaper, the head of state defended the commitment and determination of the people of Burkina Faso in the face of the terrorist hydra.
Also, he hoped that this summit would be an opportunity to be able to weave very good relations with a view to a better future for the peoples.
Sidwaya adds that the Russian President announced the resumption of the activities of the Russian embassies in Burkina Faso and Equatorial Guinea.
On the same subject, the dean of the private dailies L’Observateur Paalga writes: “Burkina Faso-Russia cooperation: IB wants a nuclear power plant”.
L’Observateur indicates that Captain Ibrahim Traoré and his delegation had a working session last Saturday with the President of the Russian Federation, Vladimir Putin.
According to the newspaper, the Head of State supported Burkina Faso’s desire to facilitate the construction, if possible, of a nuclear power plant in the country to produce electricity and to redirect “the majority of the country’s imports of hydrocarbons to Russia”.
From another angle, Sidwaya displays: “Coup d’Etat in Niger: ECOWAS sanctions”.
The daily reports that the 51st extraordinary summit of the Conference of Heads of State and Government of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) took place yesterday in Abuja, Nigeria to assess the situation in Niger. after the military coup.
According to the newspaper, the sub-regional body took a battery of sanctions against Niger and the perpetrators of the coup.
By the way, L’Observateur indicates that the ECOWAS Heads of State have decided to close the land and air borders of their countries with Niger; the freezing of Niger’s assets at the BCEAO; the suspension of all financial and commercial transactions between Niger and the WAEMU countries.
They also decided to freeze Niger’s assets, to ban the travel of the new authorities, their collaborators, as well as their family members; the non-recognition by the banks of the signature of the new military authorities.
In another section, the daily Le pays title on its front page: “Release Manu Militari de Adja de Komsilga: the Attorney General protests”.
The daily indicates that the Attorney General, in a press release, protests against the release of Amsétou Nikiéma by the military even though she had just been placed under a warrant of detention.
The observer Paalga affirms that following the broadcast of a video that has gone viral on social networks, Amsétou Nikiéma, better known as “Adja the healer of Rakissé”, was abducted with 8 other people for kidnapping, assault and battery. and complicity.
While arrest warrants had been issued against the defendants and against all expectations, hooded soldiers aboard two pick-ups and using a tank surrounded the Ouaga II High Court and tried to free the healer last Friday evening.
According to the private daily, she was released at 4 a.m. the next day. Faced with this maneuver by the military to extirpate the questioning of justice, the prosecutor evokes a serious obstacle to legal action.
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