Newspapers in their Thursday publications echo important decisions taken during the Council of Ministers on Wednesday and the celebration of International Women's Day.'Council of Ministers: May 15 established as Day of Customs and Traditions of Burkina Faso' headlines the public daily Sidwaya.'Under the Ministry of Territorial Administration, Decentralization and Security, the council adopted a decree establishing the day of customs and traditions of Burkina Faso. According to the Minister in charge of territorial administration Emile Zerbo, as part of the promotion of our customs and traditions, the Head of State has instructed his ministerial department concerned and the resource people who are the traditional chiefs for the institution of this day,' writes Sidwaya.According to the Minister of Territorial Administration, Decentralization and Security Emile Zerbo, 'this decree aims to strengthen the secularism of the State and allow traditional religion to regain its place in society. May 15 is now dec lared a public holiday,' said Emile Zerbo.For its part, the newspaper Le Pays reports that the Council of Ministers opted for a decree creating a company called "Marcena gold refinery in Burkina Faso on behalf of the development of commerce and crafts, small and medium-sized businesses'.L'Observateur Paalga reports that the Council also adopted a decree on "conditions for carrying out book operator activities in Burkina Faso which aims to optimize the contribution of the book sector to the national economy through the improvement of the legal framework'.In another subject, the daily Sidwaya evokes the day of March 8 with an interview granted to the minister in charge of gender, Nandy SoméPlaced under the theme 'Promotion of women's community entrepreneurship: what contribution do women make?' "This day will be followed by several activities such as the holding of provincial consultation frameworks, the organization of a training session with the profile of women from the 13 regions on the processing o f local products which has been launched."Nady Somé, the minister in charge of solidarity, invites women to think of all women who have lost a loved one and asks women to avoid all excesses as well as all festive gatherings because March 8 is always held in a particularly difficult context.The newspaper Le Pays approaches in the same direction with comments collected from the Burkinabè population.'I hope for a great improvement in the status of Burkinabè women, especially women in rural areas because everything starts from there. », Caren Kafando, Miss University 2023.'On the occasion of the international celebration of women, I call on all women to become aware of their role in society because whatever the situation in which women find themselves today, it is she the pillar, the engine, the catalyst of one's personal development and the development of one's environment", according to Hadéja Keita, vice-president of the Burkinabè Association for the Emergence of the Economy of Culture.Other current issues also interested the Burkinabè dailies. Le Pays displays on its headlines and in its Revelation section, 'Diapaga: five people killed in a plane crash', while on the same subject L'Observateur headlines, 'Diapaga: 5 dead and 2 injured in the crash of an aircraft.'Source: Burkina Information Agency