Bamako, Mali
The French president, Emmanuel Macron, “insults all Africans,” said Burkina Faso president, Ibrahim Traore, suggested the African nations to finish the army pacts with Paris.
“(Macron) humiliated all Africans. This is how this gentleman sees Africa and Africans. We are not human beings in their eyes,” Traore a rite in the capital, Ouagadugou on Mondays, hitting the recent comments of the French leader .
In a position to the diplomatic corps last week, Macron said that the African leaders “had forgotten to thank France for” helping to fight “in the insurrections in the Sahel region.
“It’s just a smoke screen for people,” Traore said, referring to Macron’s comments. “If someone is ungrateful, it’s him. France exists today thanks to our ancestors. Oren for us. “
The leader of Western Africa also said that Paris has replaced its strategy to their forces in Africa, because many nations in recent years have expelled soldiers and French infantry bases.
“They will not leave some countries crashing . . . They will create security corporations to ensure their corporations in those countries, however, infantry soldiers will be there. They will no longer see them in uniforms or accumulated in bases,” said Traore, said Expressing remorse that many of those who will regret that many of them, many of those who will not see them in uniforms, “said Traore, expressing that many regrets that many of them are many that many. Of their classmates” not yet I had understood this. “
Burkina Faso has been the mastery of the army since January 2022. The country of Western Africa has been among the first African nations to expel the French forces.
In recent years, several African countries, adding to Niger and Mali, have expelled the foundations of the French army, while Côte d’IVorire, Chad and Senegal have demanded the withdrawal of the French forces.
French forces withdraw Chad at the end of January.
Djibouti and Gabon are the two African nations that remain with an unsuccessful presence of the French army.
“Break the army pacts with France”
Traore asked the African nations to break the army cooperation agreements with France. “It is the way to have an independent army, build and be strong,” he said.
“If you need a break with those imperialist forces, it is simple. We have to denounce the agreements. The challenge lies in the colonial defense agreements that have been signed since independence,” he said.
“In the French system, the harmful maximum are the army advisors,” said the army sovereign, who held the workplace in September 2022. “The officials put into practice the policy of France in Africa. “
Traore about Africans “to wake up, paintings for the happiness of Africans, to combat imperialism and decolonize mentalities. ” * Write through Riyaz Ul Khaliq in Istanbul