Military leaders of Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger have said that they had no plans to rejoin the West African regional bloc ECOWAS that they left in January after accusing the body of being manipulated by former colonial ruler France.
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NIGER: French Embassy Closed Over Tensions With Military Junta
France has announced it is closing its embassy in Niger indefinitely as tensions between the two countries escalates.
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BURKINA FASO: Constitutionally Drops French As Official Language
The Burkinabe government adopted on Wednesday a bill revising the Constitution and henceforth enshrining national languages as official languages in place of French which is relegated to the rank of “working language”.
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