From 15 to 17 November 2022, a national information, awareness-raising and consultation workshop on post-Cotonou cooperation between the European Union and the Organization of African, Caribbean and Pacific States (EU-OEACP) took place. It was in Koudougou, a city located a hundred kilometers west of Ouagadougou.

The new partnership agreement between the European Union and the members of the Organization of African, Caribbean and Pacific States (ACP) succeeded the Cotonou Agreement, which expired in 2020. It covered several areas: human rights, democracy and good governance, peace and security, human and social development, environmental sustainability and climate change, sustainable and inclusive economic growth and development, and migration and mobility.

This agreement was intended to allow actors, including civil society, to be on an equal footing in terms of information. According to the minister in charge of foreign affairs, cooperation between the European Union and the OEACP is a win-win partnership. “The new post-Cotonou agreement,” she adds, “offers the opportunity once again to strengthen, strengthen and intensify cooperative relations at the political, economic, security, humanitarian and cultural levels between our two peoples,” he added.