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Burkina Faso expels French military attache for 'subversive activities'

Demonstrators hold placards during a protest to support the Burkina Faso President Ibrahim Traore and to demand the departure of France's ambassador and military forces, in Ouagadougou, on 20 January 2023. © AFP / OLYMPIA DE MAISMONT

Burkina Faso's foreign ministry has notified France of the expulsion of the embassy's military attache for "subversive activities", in the latest sign of failing relations between the two countries.

In a letter seen by French news agency AFP on Friday, the ministry warned that attache Emmanuel Pasquier and his team had two weeks to leave the Sahel country, which underwent two military coups last year.

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