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Day: August 2, 2024

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Belgium Ignites Global Debate by Changing Gambling Age, Highlighting Huge Regulatory Gaps

WATERFORD, Ireland, Aug. 02, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Belgium has ignited a global debate by raising its legal gambling age from 18 to 21, citing concerns over gambling addiction. The move sets Belgium apart from other EU countries like Sweden, Germany, Finland, and Austria, where the legal gambling age is 18. Miranda Raaff, Head of […]

English Press Releases

Belgium Ignites Global Debate by Changing Gambling Age, Highlighting Huge Regulatory Gaps

Legal Age Restrictions Comparison: Belgium, Canada, New Zealand, Germany, and Japan WATERFORD, Ireland, Aug. 02, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Belgium has ignited a global debate by raising its legal gambling age from 18 to 21, citing concerns over gambling addiction. The move sets Belgium apart from other EU countries like Sweden, Germany, Finland, and Austria, […]

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Kossi: The ‘Save Kossi’ movement in solidarity with internally displaced people

Ouagadougou: The ”Save the Kossi” movement delivered, this Thursday, August 1, 2024 in Nouna, clothing kits, mosquito nets and peanuts, to internally displaced people from the villages surrounding Nouna. This donation is worth 4,600,000 FCFA.

Natio…

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Center-East: Burkina Faso Customs offers 77 motorcycles to the Fighting Forces

Ouagadougou: The Director General of Customs of Burkina, divisional inspector Adama Ilboudo, handed over yesterday Thursday in Tenkodogo seventy-seven (77) motorcycles for the benefit of the Defense and Security Forces of the Center -East.

This donat…

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President Traoré calls for supporting the sovereignty of Burkina by using the Banque des Dépôts

Ouagadougou: The President of Faso, Captain Ibrahim Traoré, on Friday urged the Burkinabè to use the services of the new Banque des Dépôts du Trésor, in order to participate in achieving the sovereignty of the country .

‘This Friday, August 2, 2024, …

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The Paris Olympic Games and the ministerial reshuffle on the front pages of Burkina Faso’s daily newspapers

Ouagadougou: This Friday’s publications look at the progress of the 2024 Olympic Games and the ministerial reshuffle within the Burkinabe government.

The public daily *Sidwaya* headlines its front page, ‘Burkinabe Government: Redevelopment for greate…

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Minister Bazié exchanges with the Malian Minister of Defense in Nouakchott

Ouagadougou: The Minister of State, Minister of Civil Service, Labor and Social Protection, Bassolma Bazié, raised issues of the AES and the latest attack against the Malian army in north of the country with the Minister of Defense of Mali, Colonel Sa…

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Burkina/Terrorism: Around a hundred students ready to join the front (Association)

Ouagadougou: The Young Students and United Students association (JEEU) announced on July 30, 2024, that it had around a hundred members, out of a final objective of 1000, ready to engage in the front in the fight against terrorism.

‘This year, we dec…

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Burkina: Idrissa Ouédraogo dreams of a CSC ‘useful to leaders, professionals and the people’

Ouagadougou: The outgoing president of the Superior Council of Communication (CSC), Idrissa Ouédraogo, expressed the wish on Friday that the institution becomes ‘a robust machine of social regulation, useful to leaders, professionals and to the Burkin…

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The new president of the CSC, Louis Modeste Ouédraogo, took office

Ouagadougou: The new president of the Superior Council of Communication (CSC), Wendingoudi Louis Modeste Ouédraogo, officially took office this Friday in Ouagadougou, three days after his appointment.

The new president of the CSC, appointed by a pres…