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Burkina Faso’s foreign ministry announced that it had expelled three French diplomats from the French embassy in Ouagadougou for subversive activities.
The ministry described the three diplomats as “persona non grata” and asked them to leave the country within the next 48 hours.
In a related context, French sources reported that on the first of December, four French officials were arrested in Ouagadougou and charged with espionage, where they were placed under house arrest.
Burkinabe authorities said at the time they were “intelligence agents”, but the French source said, “they were computer maintenance technicians”.
This announcement comes in the context of strained diplomatic relations between Burkina Faso and France, especially after the recent events in the country, with relations deteriorating since Brahim Traoré came to power in September 2022 with the country’s termination of a military agreement with Paris and the withdrawal of French troops.
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