Burkinabè President Kaboré calls on Africans to step up in the face of terrorism

Burkinabè President Roch Marc Christian Kaboré, November 28, 2017. LUDOVIC MARIN / POOL / AFP

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President Roch Marc Christian Kaboré received on Wednesday June 9 in Ouagadougou his Ghanaian counterpart and current president of the ECOWAS Nana Akufo Ado.

In a joint press conference held at the end of the meeting, the Burkinabè president estimated that Africans should “

 pull themselves together

 ” and unite to fight against the jihadists who are destabilizing West Africa.

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No one, apart from ourselves, the Africans together, will come to save us in the fight against terrorism.

That is why we must pull ourselves together, we must work together to ensure that the victory we must win over terrorism is also a collective victory in our sub-region.

Because today, it is Burkina, yesterday it was Niger, Mali [...], Côte d'Ivoire ...

Roch Marc Christian Kaboré

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