It’s Burkina Faso’s turn to react to Emmanuel Macron’s speeches held in front of the ambassadors on Monday, January 6. According to Ibrahim Traoré, the head of the junta in power in Ouagadougou, the French president has “Insulted all Africans” by his words. “This is how this gentleman sees Africa, sees Africans. We are not humans in his eyes ”was scandalized the head of state during a vows ceremony on Monday, January 13, reports Le Figaro.
The previous week, Emmanuel Macron had denounced the ingratitude of certain African countries to Paris. He believed that France had had ” reason “ to intervene militarily against terrorism, at the call of several countries in West Africa. “I think we forgot to say thank you. It doesn’t matter, it will come over time. (…) None of them would be today with a sovereign country if the French army had not been deployed “he assured.
“French leaders must learn to respect the African people”
Chad and Senegal are also indignant
The scandalized reaction of Burkina Faso is added to that of Chad and Senegal. The Minister of Chadian Foreign Affairs had thus denounced “The contemptuous attitude towards Africa and Africans”. “French leaders must learn to respect the African people”, had he added.
Relations between Paris and Ouagadougou have continued to deteriorate since the power of the junta in September 2022. Since August 2023, development aid and the budgetary support granted by France have been suspended until further notice. A few months earlier, the French armed forces were forced to leave the Burkinabé soil.
