Burkina Faso: Prime Minister returns to cooperation with Russia
Supporters of Captain Ibrahim Traoré wave Russian and Burkinabè flags in the streets of Ouagadougou on October 2, 2022. © AP/Kilaye Bationo
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In Burkina Faso, in an interview, Sunday evening October 30, on the public television channel, two days after a demonstration against the presence of French forces on Burkinabe soil, Prime Minister Apollinaire Kyelem de Tambela returned to relations between his country and Russia.
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Faced with incessant calls from certain groups of demonstrators - who are called "the walkers" - to break off cooperation with France to turn to Moscow, within the framework of the anti-jihadist fight, the Prime Minister does not exclude to re-examine the relationship between Burkina Faso and its partners, especially Russia, but he challenges the walkers by reminding them that it is not up to them to decide.
He believes that the defense of the territory is first and foremost the responsibility of the Burkinabè and that the best support they can give to the President of the Transition is to enlist as volunteers for the defense of the homeland, the auxiliaries of the armed forces.
(...) It is not up to the street to tell us to do this or to do that because those who march and who protest... there are elements that we have and that they believe they have, but that they do not have.
[…] Those who walk and who say “there, we have to go with Russia”, etc… if they are patriots, the first step to take is the march against terrorism.
It is in the fight against terrorism that we will verify the patriotism of each...
Apollinaire Kyelem de Tambela, Prime Minister of Burkina Faso
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