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IB in turn responds to E. Macron

Ouagadougou (© 2025 Afriquinfos) – After Chad and Senegal, it is up to Burkina Faso to react to Emmanuel Macron’s unsavory remarks made about Africa last week. This Monday, January 13, the President of the transition in Burkina Faso also provided his response. During a speech of greetings, Ibrahim Traoré assures that Macron has disrespected an entire continent.

« He insulted all Africans. (…) This is how this gentleman sees Africa, sees Africans. We are not humans in his eyes,” assures Ibrahim Traoré. He continues. “If you want a break with these imperialist forces, it’s simple, we denounce the agreements. If we do not denounce the agreements, just say that they are leaving the (military) bases, we have done nothing »,

« If you want a break with these imperialist forces, it’s simple, we denounce the agreements. If we do not denounce the agreements, just say that they are leaving the (military) bases, we have done nothing,” Captain Traoré said on Monday. “Africans need to wake up. We must work to be independent. We must decolonize mentalities “, he added.

Relations between Burkina Faso and have continued to deteriorate since Captain Traoré, 36, took power by force in September 2022. Burkina Faso, like its neighbors and allies, Mali and Niger as well governed by putschists hostile to , obtained between 2022 and 2023 the departure of French soldiers from their territories. The three countries have at the same time moved closer to Moscow, just like the Central African Republic which had also demanded the departure of the French in 2022.

African countries no longer want military cooperation with France. Chad and Senegal took the lead last November. Chad, France’s last anchor point in the Sahel, denounced the military cooperation agreement and demanded a departure of French troops by the end of January. Two military bases have already been handed over.

Senegal, for its part, has called for the closure of French bases and the end of all foreign military presences in 2025, according to a timetable to be defined. And the two countries also criticized the comments of Emmanuel Macron who had also affirmed that France had agreed out of politeness to certain African countries “the primacy of the announcement” of the reorganization of its military system.

« I would like to express my indignation at the comments recently made by President Macron which border on contempt towards Africa and Africans. I think he’s got the wrong era “, declared Chadian President Mahamat Idriss Déby Itno. Senegalese Prime Minister Ousmane Sonko, for his part, denounced “totally erroneous” comments and that Senegal’s decision “stems from its sole will”, as a “sovereign country”.

France must also gradually withdraw its military from Ivory Coast and Gabon,

« I think we forgot to say thank you. It doesn’t matter, it will come with time. Ingratitude, I am well placed to know, is a disease that is not transmissible to humans », declared the French president last week regarding French military interventions against jihadists in the Sahel.

VA

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