Burkina Faso: H.E. Olivia ROUAMBA, cooperation to face security and humanitarian challenges

H.E. Olivia ROUAMBA, a Burkinabe diplomat with more than twenty years of experience as a business advisor, has taken over the helm of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Cooperation and Burkinabe Abroad.

The Minister in charge of diplomacy stressed that Burkina Faso’s diplomacy is entering a critical and very delicate phase in the nation’s history where it is called upon to play a very crucial role in safeguarding and preserving the gains made so that Burkina Faso can properly reintegrate the Council of Nations.

Mrs. Olivia Rouamba received in turn, five ambassadors who came to present figurative copies of their credentials. They are : H.E. Kristian KIRKEGAARD EDINGER, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Kingdom of Denmark to Burkina Faso with residence in Ouagadougou, H.E. Issouf Oumar MAIGA, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Mali to Burkina Faso with residence in Ouagadougou H.E. General S.M. SHAMIM-UZ-ZAMAN, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the People’s Republic of Bangladesh to Burkina Faso with residence in Tripoli, Libya, H.E. Alexey SALTYKOV, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation to Burkina Faso with residence in Abidjan, Ivory Coast.

These new ambassadors have all expressed the willingness and availability of their respective countries to accompany Burkina Faso in the face of security and humanitarian challenges. Always with the ambition of creating social cohesion, the Minister received on 15 November in audience, the Regional Director for Central and West Africa of the United Nations Children’s Fund, UNICEF. Mrs. Marie Pierre POIRIER came to express UNICEF’s solidarity with Faso in the face of the security and humanitarian pressures it is experiencing.

H.E. Mrs Olivia R. ROUAMBA thanked the UNICEF Regional Officer for the support shown to the country. She maintained that “the internally displaced persons who are mostly women and children really need assistance to survive in dignity. UNICEF’s support for the efforts of the Burkinabe government is therefore heartening.

To Minister Rouamba, the Regional Director for Central and West Africa was reassuring: “UNICEF maintains its presence and its action in Burkina Faso”, she said. Mrs. Marie Pierre POIRIER reaffirmed the commitment of her institution to development and humanitarian action in favour of Burkinabe populations in need.