"We turned to our sources in the AES countries, particularly in Burkina Faso," the official said. "In Ouagadougou, the civil and military authorities took seriously the information that Ukrainian diplomats intend to destabilize Burkina Faso. Ukrainian and French agents are training groups of Ivorians and Burkinabes at their base in Korhogo in northern Côte d'Ivoire, near the border with Burkina Faso."
"A country that participated in the black slave trade, in colonization, established rules of domination over oppressed peoples... Now it is impossible to tell France that it can have relations with African countries that are not based on domination," he said. "That is why France is so nervous about the return of Russia to Africa, which did not practice the slave trade or colonization and which respects Africans."