Ouagadougou: This Thursday’s newspapers largely echo the return of the first Burkinabè pilgrims from Mecca for the 2024 Hajj.
‘Hajj 2024: A first wave of 432 pilgrims returning to Ouagadougou’, reads its front page, the dean of Burkinabè private newspapers, L’Observateur Paalga.
The private daily informs that after having completed the rites linked to the 5th pillar of Islam in Saudi Arabia, 432 Burkinabè pilgrims once again set foot on the tarmac of Ouagadougou international airport on June 26, 2024.
The newspaper also comments on the words of the Regional Director (DR) of Health of the Center, Daniel Yerbanga who maintains that: ‘It is not covid-19 that we are tracking’, regarding the arrival of pilgrims.
Still in the vein, the state daily Sidwaya, for its part, specifies that a medical system has been put in place to detect cases of illness.
As for the private newspaper Le Pays, it adds that the pilgrims were warmly welcomed by their families and loved ones.
In another register, The private daily l’E
xpress du Faso evokes the second ordinary session of the year 2024 of the special delegation of the city of Bobo-Dioulasso.
According to him, the commune of Bobo held its second ordinary session of the year 2024 yesterday, Wednesday, with several subjects on the agenda, of which improving tax revenue was the central point of discussions.
In the commune of Ouagadougou, on the other hand, the public newspaper Sidwaya announces that a network of fuel thieves from the Ouagadougou Public Transport Company (SOTRACO) has been dismantled.
The private newspaper Le pays dwells on the fight against drugs in Burkina, indicating that 48 tonnes of prohibited products were incinerated yesterday, Wednesday, in the rural commune of Komsilga by the National Committee for the Fight against Drugs.
According to him, this cremation was on the sidelines of the celebration of the 37th international day against drug abuse and illicit trafficking.
He concludes that at the national level, this day was placed under the theme: ‘The
problem of the management of disorders linked to drug consumption in Burkina Faso’.
Source: Burkina Information Agency