Burkina Faso: Captain Traoré speaks at Joseph Ki-Zerbo University
Burkina Faso's new military chief Ibrahim Traore is escorted by soldiers in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, October 2, 2022. REUTERS - VINCENT BADO
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The head of the transition met there with the teachers and the students separately.
Securing universities, improving study conditions, the question of the Volunteers for the Defense of the Fatherland or even the reopening of establishments closed because of terrorism were at the heart of the exchanges.
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In front of the students, Captain Ibrahim Traoré invited the young people to divest themselves of all those who brandish the risks of ethnic or religious war following the recruitment of thousands of Volunteers for the defense of the Fatherland.
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When they feel that this fight, we are going to win it, the ethnic question will start to arise.
Don't get into this game of violence.
Others are surfing on the question of revisions
[historical, Editor's note]
.
You have to get away from that.
»
In their interventions, the students mainly returned to the securing of university facilities and the resumption of classes in Dori and Ouahigouya, closed following the threat of armed terrorist groups: “
What mechanisms to better adapt the current education system to our realities?
“, “
How do you intend to guarantee the reconstruction of these areas once the liberation is effective?
», «
Can we count on our governance to be able to hope for the departure of the French army and French institutions?
»
Asked whether the army and other French institutions will leave Burkina Faso, Captain Ibrahim Traoré announced the revision of certain agreements.
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Perhaps in the hours to come, a certain amount of information tending to review our relations with certain States.
Because we have to revise a lot of texts.
We want to be sovereign and I don't want there to be violence as I said.
»
The president of the transition promises that the first VDPs will soon be propelled on the ground to strengthen the ranks of the combatants within the framework of securing the Burkinabe territory.
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