Civil society organizations in Burkina Faso demonstrated Sunday, through a march, their solidarity with the new Nigerien authorities who overthrew the former president, Mohamed Bazoum, on July 26, 2023.
Several Burkinabè civil society organizations pounded the pavement on Sunday, August 6, 2023 from the Place de la Nation to the Niger consulate located in Ouaga 2000 to deliver their message of support to the new authorities of Niger and the representation of ECOWAS in Burkina Faso.
To the sound of vuvuzelas, carrying placards containing, among other things, they chanted slogans hostile to ECOWAS and France.
On July 30, 2023, the Heads of State of the sub-regional institution, meeting in Abuja, Nigeria for a "Special Summit" relating to the Nigerien putsch which overthrew the former President, Mohamed Bazoum, on July 26, 2023, gave a battery of sanctions.
These include, among other things, the suspension of all commercial and financial transactions, the closure of land and air borders between ECOWAS countries and Niger, the freezing of Niger's assets in the central banks of ECOWAS and WAMU and in commercial banks.
ECOWAS also gave the coup leaders a one-week ultimatum to restore constitutional order in Niger, failing which a military intervention would follow.
The president of the coordination of civil organizations of Burkina Faso (COSC / BF), Amadou Maïga indicated that the march aims to support the new masters of Niger.
Mr. Maîga hoped that the new era taking shape in Niger would be that of pan-Africanism and the struggle to recover the total sovereignty of the country and of Africa in general.
He called on the new authorities to orient their governance and their actions in the interest of Nigeriens and to get closer to Burkina and Mali to pool energies in the fight against the terrorist Hydra which remains a common enemy.
"We must all remember that terrorism today is the instrument of post-colonial domination created by imperialism for the sole purpose of helping to keep us in poverty and to plunder our resources", he added.
Amadou Maïga also urged the youth of Niger to constitute a bulwark for the fight against imperialism and its local lackeys.
For him, in view of the seriousness of the sanctions and the manifest will of ECOWAS to harm the peoples of the Sahel against their deep aspirations, the COSC/BF strongly condemns its "inhuman" and "murderous" measures against the Nigerians.
According to him, the sub-regional institution has abandoned the populations of the Sahel in the hands of terrorists for a decade and has never intervened to restore peace.
As a reminder, on July 26, former President Mohamed Bazoum was overthrown in a coup by the presidential guard. Niger's new strongman is General Abdourahamane Tiani.
Source: Burkina Information Agency