INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
France.Following a 2022 military coup, Burkina Faso's new leadership broke with Paris and has embraced Russia, which has sent army
instructors to help Ouagadougou's fight against an Islamist insurgency.Attending a Russia-Africa summit in the southern Russian city of
of Burkina Faso, he told AFP in an interview on the sidelines of the Sochi summit.He said Russia, like Burkina Faso, has suffered from
its troops fight in Ukraine.Moscow's narrative blasting neocolonialism and Western hegemony resonates strongly with many leaders on the
continent.Burkina Faso was a French colony for the first half of the 20th Century, and relations have soured with Paris following the 2022
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