The CAN 2025 qualifiers and the 2024-2025 academic year dominate the headlines of Burkinabe newspapersOuagadougou, Oct. 11, 2024 (AIB)-This Friday's publications focus on the 2024-2025 academic year at Joseph Ki-Zerbo University and the victory of the Burkina stallions against the Burundi swallows."CAN 2025 qualifiers/Burkina-Burundi: 4-1: the stallions pluck the swallows," is the headline in the state daily Sidwaya.The newspaper of all Burkinabe indicates that the stallions won, without a fight (4-1), the first round of their double confrontation against the swallows yesterday at the Allassane Ouattara Olympic stadium in Ebimpé.The daily newspaper points out that there were ten thousand tickets sold during yesterday's match. This explains why Burkinabe living in Ivory Coast showed their solidarity through their presence at the stadium.In the same dynamic, the dean of the private dailies of Burkina, L'Observateur Paalga informs that thanks to this victory the stallions remain at the head of group L, while waiting for the exit of Senegal during this 3rd day of the eliminations of the CAN 2025.As for the private daily, Le Pays, the return match is scheduled for Sunday, October 13 at 4 p.m., still in Eburnie.Under another section, L'Observateur Paalga, headlines: "Solemn return to Joseph Ki-Zerbo University: a big step towards resolving the overlapping of academic years"For daily life, Joseph Ki-Zerbo University welcomes 15,488 new students in this 2024/2025 academic year.The newspaper Le Pays, for its part, indicates that this meeting with the students was an opportunity for the administrative staff of the university to pay tribute to the first nine teacher-researchers of the said university.According to the colleague, these teacher-researchers began their career on October 1, 1974.He also added that three of them each received a trophy of recognition for their contribution to the building of the university.Sidwaya for his part informs that during the academic year ceremony, the Director G eneral of Higher Education, Professor Ali Savadogo, made it known that the current priority of the university is the elimination of academic delays.Source: Burkina Information Agency