Burkina Faso takes measures to bring peace to north region

The Burkina Faso government on Monday said measures have been taken to reaffirm the State's authority in the northern part of the country prone to jihadist attacks.

Three ministers of the government made this public to education stakeholders including pupils' parent association, trade union and private school promoters, during a special meeting in the capital Ouagadougou on Monday, a governmental release said.

Security minister Simon Compaore chaired the meeting in the presence of minister of territorial administration and decentralization Simeon Sawadogo and education minister Jean Martin Coulibaly.

Appropriate security measures have been taken to restore an atmosphere which enables the successful conduct of socio-economic and educational activities in northern Burkina Faso, according to the release.

The measures include a setting up of a structure to provide psychological care to people affected by terrorist attacks.

Burkina Faso authorities also consider developing training programs for education in conflict and emergency situations.

The special training is essentially for teachers and principals of educational structures, the release said.

The measures have been taken as education stakeholders in the north increasingly disapprove of increasing insecurity in the region.

In early March, unidentified armed individuals killed a school principal as they broke into Koursayel's school, a village in the Soum province in the northern region.

Over the past few years, a series of terrorist attacks have been registered in the northern Sahel region of Burkina Faso close to the border with Mali and Niger. Endit