UEMOA Celebrates 30 Years of Regional Growth: Unveiling the Vision for a Brighter Future with CAP 2025
UEMOA Celebrates 30 Years of Existence: Educating Media Professionals on Sustainable Growth and Population Well-being
Following a training session in Saly, Senegal in 2023, the UEMOA Commission has convened a meeting of media professionals in Ouagadougou to discuss the organization’s achievements and vision for sustainable growth and population well-being.
Sylvestre TCHOMAKOU (Special Envoy from Ouagadougou)
The UEMOA Commission recognizes the crucial role of media professionals in disseminating information about the organization’s achievements and vision. To this end, the Commission has organized a five-day workshop for journalists from the “UEMOA Media Platform” to educate them on the organization’s projects for sustainable growth and population well-being.
Aminata Mbodj, Technical Adviser for Communication to the President of the UEMOA Commission, emphasized the importance of sharing the organization’s achievements and main activities of the Priority Action Framework 2021-2024 (CAP 2025) with media professionals. This, she explained, is to ensure “better visibility of WAEMU’s actions whose ultimate objective, as the President of the Commission, Abdoulaye Diop, often reminds us, is the well-being of the populations of the Union.”
Sébastien Babakan, Communications Director of the UEMOA Commission, welcomed the commitment of President Abdoulaye Diop to make media professionals from member states key players in achieving the mission assigned to the Commission. Léonard Dossou, Coordinator of the “Uemoa Media Platform” and Director General of the Press Group The Economist from Benin, emphasized the importance of training for journalists and reiterated the availability of the Union’s media to support the efforts made to ensure mutual prosperity between member states.
The workshop, which brings together journalists from 8 States of the Union, features several communications, including “UEMOA, 30 years: experience of resilient integration in the face of exogenous shocks” presented by Souleymane Diarra, Director of Strategy and Evaluation of the organization. Other communications include “Development of regional training and research centers in the UEMOA area”; “cyber security issues and challenges in the WAEMU space”; and “Convergence of State economic performances and policies”.