Burkina Faso expels three French diplomats
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Burkina Faso has asked three French diplomats, including two political advisers at the French embassy in Ouagadougou, to leave the country after declaring them "undesirable persons" due to what it called destructive activities.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Burkina Faso has asked three French diplomats, including two political advisers at the French embassy in Ouagadougou, to leave the country after declaring them "undesirable persons" due to what it called destructive activities.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Burkina Faso has written in a document sent to the French embassy that the three diplomats "have been placed on the list of people who are not wanted in the land of Burkina Faso due to their destructive activities and have been asked to leave the country within 48 hours."
Security sources in Burkina Faso say, on December last year, 4 employees of the French government, who the Burkina Faso authorities said were intelligence agents, were arrested in the country and are now under house arrest.
At the time, a French diplomatic source in Ouagadougou said they were computer technicians, "and they have been charged and imprisoned."
In the middle of September, Burkina Faso also decided to expel the military officer in the French Embassy for allegedly engaging in "destructive activities" and gave him two weeks to leave the country.
Relations between France and Burkina Faso have deteriorated since Ibrahim Traoré came to power in September 2022 through a coup that was the second in 8 months, with the country ending the military agreement with Paris and expelling French military forces from the West African country. .
