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Reuters
Reuters
Politics
Paul Lorgerie

Thousands take to the streets of Bamako in anti-French protest

Supporters participate in a demonstration called by Yerewolo Debout sur les remparts, an anti-France political movement, in Bamako, Mali, February 4, 2022. REUTERS/Paul Lorgerie

Thousands of anti-French protesters took to the streets of Mali's capital on Friday waving Russian flags and burning cardboard cut-outs of French President Emmanuel Macron in celebration of the expulsion of France's envoy in Bamako.

Mali expelled the French ambassador last week over what the country's transitional government described as "hostile and outrageous" comments by the former colonial power.

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