August 3, Ougadougou, Burkina Faso - Fifteen delegates arrived today in Ougadougou to further support from the African Diaspora to the Alliance of Sahel States and especially Burkina Faso President Ibrahim Traore. Members of the delegation which included the organizer Yaw Akyeaw and Special Envoy to Burkina Faso Siphiwe Baleka representing the Friends of President Ibrahimg Traore in the West (FPITW) were received in the VIP room at Ougadougou Thomas Sankara International Airport by Samuel Kalkoumdo, Special Adviser on Social Cohession and National Reconciliation to President Ibrahim Traore and Commandant Karambiri. Joining the delegation was His Majesty Chief Samand Naaba, Samia Nkrumah, daughter of the great President of Ghana, Kwame Nkrumah, Professor Obadele Kambon of Ghana, Dr. Ousmane Camara, Presidential candidate in the upcomming elections in the Ivory Coast, and Ouattara Hayouba, President of the Patriotic Movement Fas First of Burkina Faso (M.P.F.A.) and Secretary General of the Director of the Confederation of Peoples of the Alliance of Sahel States.
After a grand luncheon reception at Hotel Azalai, the delegation was then received by Mrs. Makini Tchameni at the African American Academy.
The delegation ended the tour with a visit to the new office of the Friends of President Ibrahim Traore in the West (FPITW) that will serve as the African Diaspora’s “embassy” in Ougadougou and one-stop-shop for information on how to visit, invest, repatriate, get citizenship and support the Burkinabe revolution and the Alliance of Sahel States.
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