Russia have pledged go send additional military supplies and instructors to Burkina Faso to help the West African country boost its defense capabilities, according to Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov.
“Russian instructors work here and their number will increase,” Lavrov said at a news conference in the capital Ouagadougou. “At the same time, we are training representatives of the armed forces and security forces of Burkina Faso in Russia.”
“I have no doubt that thanks to this cooperation, the pockets of terrorists which remain in Burkina Faso will be destroyed,” he added, referring to Jihadist rebels who have waged an insurgency in the West African nation since 2015.
Lavrov was grateful for what he called an efficient assistance in finding solutions that helped Russia reopen its embassy in Ouagadougou.
The embassy reopened last year after 31 years of closure.
Burkina Faso is Lavrov’s third stop on his wider tour of Africa after trips to Guinea and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. He is expected to next travel to Chad, where General Mahamat Idriss Deby has just been elected president after three years at the head of a military junta there.
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