Ouagadougou: Burkina Faso will serve the 3,000 sacrificial sheep carcasses offered by Saudi Arabia, as a priority to internally displaced people and populations in areas with strong security challenges, according to the Ministry of Humanitarian action.
This donation from Saudi Arabia will be distributed with a focus on areas with strong security challenges and a high concentration of internally displaced people, said yesterday Tuesday the Secretary General of the Ministry in charge of Humanitarian Action, Romain Compaoré.
For Mr. Compaoré, this gesture will provide some relief to the beneficiaries.
The ambassador of the Saudi Kingdom to Burkina Faso, Fahad Aldosari, handed over 32 tons of sheep meat to vulnerable groups in Ouagadougou.
‘This is my country’s contribution to Burkina Faso in these times of food crisis that Burkina Faso is going through,’ declared the Saudi diplomat.
This activity is part of the implementation of a Saudi Arabian project aimed at providing sacrificial meat to countries, throu
gh the Islamic Development Bank.
Source: Burkina Information Agency