Sandbontenga: The new president of the Kaya High Court (TGI), Magistrate Hate Yves Mane, pledged on Friday to consolidate the achievements of his predecessor by delivering justice in the name of the Burkinabe people, with independence, impartiality, and speed, in compliance with the fundamental principles of his profession, upon his installation.

According to Burkina Information Agency, Magistrate Hate Yves Mane was installed on Friday, October 3, 2025, in his new role as President of the Kaya High Court by the outgoing President of the Kaya TGI, Safiatou Zidouemba/Belem. This took place during an extraordinary hearing attended by administrative, military, paramilitary, judicial and parajudicial, religious, and customary authorities, as well as a mission from the High Council of the Judiciary.

After reading the reference documents, the prosecution’s requisitions, and the observations of the legal assistants, Safiatou Zidouemba/Belem, outgoing president of the Kaya High Court, took note and referred Hate Yves Mane to the exercise of his new functions as president of the Kaya High Court (TGI), cumulatively president of the Kaya Administrative Court.

Magistrate Hate Yves Mane, previously a judge at the Ouagadougou High Court, was appointed on July 17, 2025, by decree no. 2025-0943/PF/MJDHRI/MEF appointing magistrates, replacing Safiatou Zidouemba/Belem, who was appointed to the position of advisor at the Ouagadougou Court of Appeal.

The holding of this extraordinary hearing is part of the application of article 119 of organic law n°050-2015/CNT of August 25, 2015, amended by law n°006-2024/ALT of April 6, 2024. Article 119, paragraph 1, provides that “the magistrate is installed in his functions in a solemn hearing of the jurisdiction to which he is appointed.” This formal hearing aims, according to the public prosecutor, who is also a government commissioner at the Kaya High Court, Theodore Bance, to present to the public the magistrates in charge of their cases.