The current president of the Council of Local Authorities of the West African Economic and Monetary Union (UEMOA), Mayor of the commune of Treichville, François Albert Amichia, is making a working visit to Burkina Faso from August 1 to 5, 2021.

Mayor François Albert Amichia will chair a steering committee of the Regional Programme to Support Decentralization in the UEMOA Region (PRADEU) funded by Swiss Cooperation. This major program should eventually allow better consideration of the challenges of Decentralization in favor of territorial actors and support local authorities on institutional and operational projects. This mission will also see a meeting with the new president of the UEMOA Commission, Abdoulaye Diop, as well as commissioners Paul Koffi Koffi and Joãozinho

In addition, the president of the CCT UEMOA will preside over a ceremony to award 200 sewing machines to women's groups and associations in Burkina Faso, as part of the women's empowerment program implemented by CCT/UEMOA and the Green Fund for Women initiated by R 20, from which the Ivorian side has already received its equipment (200 machines). Finally, he will be received in audience by the current president of UEMOA, Roch Marc Kaboré,