Mali: Colonel Assimi Goïta welcomes his Burkinabe counterpart Paul-Henri Damiba to Bamako

Malians brandish the photographs of Colonel Assimi Goïta and Lieutenant-Colonel Paul-Henri Damiba in Ouagadougou during a mobilization in January 2021. (illustration image) AFP - OLYMPIA DE MAISMONT

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The current leader of Faso left Ouagadougou on Saturday for a visit to his Malian counterpart, Colonel Assimi Goïta.

His plane landed at Modibo Keita International Airport in Bamako around 3 p.m. local time.

A diplomatic mission to convince all the neighbors of Burkina Faso to meet around the same table to define a common strategy for the fight against jihadist, according to a source close to the Burkinabe presidency.

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With our correspondent in Ouagadougou, 

The Burkinabè head of state was welcomed with all the honors due to his rank: red carpet, fanfare, guard of honor and a great popular mobilization along the arteries to the Koulouba palace, according to a source on site at Bamako.

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 ", wrote Colonel Assimi Goita, the Malian head of state, on his Twitter account.

It is a great honor for #Mali to receive my brother President @PaulHenriDamiba for his first trip abroad.

— Colonel Assimi GOITA (@GoitaAssimi) September 3, 2022

Part of this delegation in Bamako, several military leaders, including Lieutenant-Colonel Yves Didier Bamouni, the commander of operations of the national theater.

It is he who coordinates the fight against terrorism.

Also present in Bamako: Lieutenant-Colonel Mahamadi Bonkoungou, the head of intelligence in Burkina.

After the airport, the two Heads of State met one-on-one, before the meeting was extended to members of the delegations.

Military cooperation is the main subject on the menu of this visit.

Burkina Faso intends to bring all its neighbors together around the same table in order to define a common strategy for the fight against terrorism, according to a source close to the Kosyam palace. 

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