the Prime Minister, Albert Ouédraogo, presented to the deputies the roadmap of the Transition government.

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The current priorities of the country are known.

These are insecurity, the return to the fold of internally displaced persons, the food crisis and the reintegration of terrorist elements who have agreed to lay down their arms.

In terms of security,

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President Damiba has made an appointment with the Burkinabè in five months for an initial assessment.

However, he did not describe the means to be implemented to achieve these results.

The same is true for the other priority points.

It was therefore up to the Prime Minister to be more explicit in order to reassure the Burkinabè.

He detailed some means that the government intends to implement in terms of the fight against insecurity.

The aim is to forge strategic partnerships and to diversify them by taking advantage of the specific strengths of each partner.

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a possible partnership with Russia that some Burkinabè like Mali are calling for?

With China, Turkey, Israel and all the countries that can help?

So many legitimate questions that are currently unanswered. 

 If the oral examination was conclusive, the hardest part remains to be done for the Prime Minister, Albert Ouédraogo, and his government.

It is urgent to turn words into deeds, to loosen the noose around the Burkinabè, caught between the hammer of terrorism and the anvil of the difficult economic situation resulting from the Covid-19 pandemic.

The site will not be far from the seven labors of Hercules, especially in this context where the Burkinabè transition, younger sister of its elders from Mali and Guinea, will be closely scrutinized by the international community, in particular ECOWAS which has even, promised his accompaniment in Burkina. 

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recover the areas infested by terrorists and bring back the 1 million 800,000 internally displaced people to their villages.

(…) Refounding the State, with a recentralisation on cardinal values ​​in particular on a virtuous governance, a neutrality of the Administration and its efficiency, in short, putting meritocracy back at the center of the Public Administration, by depoliticizing it. 

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 regulate the political game, with a regulation of the parties, the financing and the capping of public expenditure, all to achieve a shift towards a 5th Republic.

This refoundation project alone could take the 36 months of the Transition.

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it is a real Copernican revolution that the new authorities want to accomplish.

That's a lot for a Transition in a country where several parts of the territory are occupied by terrorists. 

 Consequences of the war in Ukraine: the DRC threatened by the F bomb 

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we should witness in the coming weeks a vertiginous rise in the prices of food and fuel across the country, a direct consequence of the increase in transport traffic and the scarcity of products. such as cereals and oil…from Ukraine and Russia.

As a result, the problem of food insecurity, which is chronic in the DRC, is likely to increase. 

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the price of gas has gone from 20,000 francs, or 10 dollars, to 27,000 francs, or 18 dollars;

the bag of wheat flour went from 46 to 60 dollars. 

relaunch local agricultural production, cassava and corn, in particular as substitutes for wheat flour, and organize an agricultural airlift to allow the transport of basic food products from our localities to major consumption centers such as Kinshasa, Matadi, Lubumbashi, Kananga, Kisangani or Goma.