| Oh no! No more cocktail parties and afternoon teas with genuine Danish danish pastries? However will the international diplomatic corps survive?? |
...The country in west Africa that they put where Upper Volta used to be. Its capital is Oogadooga, or something like that. Its president used to be Blaise Compaoré, who took office in 1987 and was chased out in 2014. Now it's the usual army officer type guy, Captain Ibrahim Traore, running things, who's just doing a bang-up job unless he's already been deposed...as part of its new strategy for cooperation with Africa.
The Foreign Ministry said on Monday that military coups in both countries had limited ''the scope for action in the Sahel region
... North Africa's answer to the Pak tribal areas...
Instead, it plans to open new missions in Senegal
... a nation of about 14 million on the west coast of Africa bordering Mauretania to the north, Mali to the east, and a pair of Guineas to the south, one of them Bissau. It is 90 percent Mohammedan and has more than 80 political parties. Its primary purpose seems to be absorbing refugees...
, Tunisia, and Rwanda, and increase its diplomatic workforce in its embassies in Egypt, Kenya, South Africa, Nigeria, and Ghana.
Copenhagen said that following the closures in Bamako and Ougadougou, it will appoint a special representative for the Great Lakes and Sahel region.
Relations between the two African countries and the West have deteriorated since Mali's coup in 2020 and in Burkina Faso in 2022.
Both have turned to Russia and its Wagner mercenary group for support since then.