The Burkina Faso government demanded the departure of French military troops deployed on its territory within a month, according to Burkina Information Agency “AIB”.
AIB said the Burkinab government on January 18 suspended a 2018 military agreement that allowed the presence of French soldiers in Burkina Faso.
France would have one month to withdraw its troops from the country, cited AIB.
The Burkinabè government denounced last Wednesday, the agreement which has governed since 2018, the presence of the French Armed Forces on its territory.
This decision comes as anti-French sentiment has grown in recent months in Burkina Faso, a former French colony, and protests against France have multiplied there.
for several months, citizens have been demonstrating regularly to demand the departure of the soldiers of Operation Saber, stationed in Kamboinssin, northeast of Ouagadougou.
These protesters accuse France sometimes of not doing enough to help Burkina Faso in the grip of terrorist attacks, sometimes of being in cahoots with the aggressors.
Hundreds of people descended on Friday in the center of Ouagadougou to protest again against the French presence in the country.
About 400 members of French special forces are deployed in Burkina Faso to help local authorities fight a violent Islamist insurgency, which spread from neighboring Mali in 2015.
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