Source link A donation ceremony took place in Ouagadougou following the delivery of the humanitarian aid Russia has donated 25,000 tons of grain to Burkina Faso as part of a humanitarian aid initiative, Russian Ambassador Alexey Saltykov confirmed on Friday. A ceremony marking the arrival of the wheat took place in Ouagadougou, the capital of […]
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Burkina Faso to host Vladimir Putin Award ceremony — RT Africa
Source link The event will take place on December 28 near the Thomas Sankara Memorial in Ouagadougou An international prize ‘for the Liberation of the African Peoples’ named after Russian President Vladimir Putin will be presented in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, Burkina24 reported on Thursday. The award was established by the Ivorian writer Sylvain Takoue, who […]
Burkina Faso to abandon French as official language — RT Africa
Source link The Council of Ministers has approved the move in an amendment to the constitution An amendment to Burkina Faso’s constitution granting local languages official status, while dropping French and making it a working language, was approved by the Council of Ministers on Wednesday. The minister of justice and human rights, Edasso Rodrigue Bayala, […]
Russia backing Burkina Faso’s fight against deadly disease — RT Africa
Source link More than 200 people in the former French colony have been killed by dengue fever so far this year A team of virologists and military personnel from the Russian Nuclear, Chemical, and Biological Protection Troops are in Burkina Faso to offer assistance to the African nation in handling disease outbreaks. The specialists visited […]