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Demonstrators in Burkina Faso protest France and ECOWAS while waving Russian flags

Supporters of Burkina Faso's new junta wave Burkina Faso and Russian flags at a protest in Ouagadougou on October 4, 2022. © Vincent Bado, Reuters

Anti-French protesters waving Russian flags and shouting slogans against the West African ECOWAS block rallied in Burkina Faso's capital Ouagadougou on Tuesday as ECOWAS delegates arrived on a fact-finding mission following the country's second military coup this year.

Brandishing Russian flags in a display of support for Moscow, the demonstrators shouted slogans criticising the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) regional bloc and France, the former colonial power in Burkina Faso.

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