With reports of Russia’s Wagner PM mercenaries set to move into Burkina Faso as French troops exit following September 2022 coup, Russian FM denies interference in other states. The evidence in Africa, and beyond, shows otherwise.
that French troops will be withdrawn from Burkina Faso at the request of the West African country’s junta-controlled government.
Relations between France and Burkina Faso – formerly a French colony – have been on the skids since September 2022, when Burkina Faso experienced its second coup that year .Russia’s ambitions in Africa “predatory,” reportedly accused Russia of influencing Burkina Faso’s decision to demand a French troop withdrawal.“This is a question about the principles of foreign policy,” he said.
In December, Ghana’s President Nana Akufo-Addo claimed Burkina Faso had cut a deal with the Russian private military company known as the Wagner Group. Akufo-Addo said Burkina Faso, in exchange for helping to combat jihadists, had ceded to Russian forces control of a mineAkufo-Addo said having the Wagner Group “operating on our northern border is particularly distressing for us in Ghana.”
Protesters seen setting the French flag on fire during an anti-France protest in Central Ouagadougou on January 20, 2023.in news reports of plundering gold and diamonds in Sudan, in part, to fund Russia’s war effort in Ukraine, in exchange for protecting Sudan’s unpopular military leader.In January 2022, Paul-Henri Damiba ousted Burkina Faso’s democratically-elected president.
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