The Delegate Minister for Security, Mahamadou Sana, stressed on Friday in Ouagadougou, during the 2023 mid-term review of the Sectoral Framework for Defense-Security Dialogue (CSD-DS) that the operations offensives to reconquer national territory continued and intensified during the first half of 2023.
“Faced with the cycles of violence and deadly attacks that caused the loss of our combat forces and the looting of property, the offensive operations to reconquer the national territory continued and intensified during the first half of 2023 with results that bode well for a better future,” said the Minister Delegate for Security, Chief Police Commissioner Mahamadou Sana.
By way of illustration, he noted the Kapidougou operation launched on April 3 in the Boucle du Mouhoun with the pooling of the national armed forces of Burkina Faso and Mali.
The Minister Delegate spoke on behalf of the Minister of Territorial Administration, Decentralization and Security (MATDS), Émile Zerbo who is the President of the Sectoral Framework for Defense-Security Dialogue (CSD-DS).
The main police commissioner Mahamadou Sana also listed as achievements of the first half of 2023, “the strengthening of the capacities of the Defense and Security Forces (FDS) in terms of equipment, staff, development, control and surveillance in the mining sector.
He also mentioned “the organization of security patrols including forest areas and the multidimensional assistance provided to internally displaced persons”.
He announced during this review, the adoption of the 2023 mid-term report and the sector action plan for stabilization and development.
“It is for us, in the light of this mid-term report, to draw all the necessary lessons related to the situation, and to formulate recommendations capable of boosting the performance of the CSD, with the main benchmark being the protection people and property throughout the national territory,” said Mr. Sana.
The President of the Sectoral Framework for Defense-Security Dialogue (CSD-DS) through the voice of the Minister Delegate for Security has undertaken to take appropriate measures within his competence to improve the contribution of the CSD to the objectives of the transition.
He invited all the actors and partners, members of the “Defence-Security” sector dialogue framework to remain mobilized and to be more committed to the implementation of the Sector Action Plan.
Source: Burkina Information Agency