Burkina Faso: Government reassures Guinean community and rejects any call for reprisals after the expulsion of Burkinabè gold miners
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Burkina Faso: Government reassures Guinean community and rejects any call for reprisals after the expulsion of Burkinabè gold miners (opens at the publisher, in a new window)
After Burkinabè gold miners were expelled from gold-mining sites in Guinea, Family and Solidarity Minister Pélagie Kaboré/Kabré calls for calm and assures that Guinean nationals in Burkina Faso must not be harassed. She rejects calls for revenge circulating on social media.
Burkina: "No Guinean will be harassed here," says Minister of Solidarity (opens at the publisher, in a new window)
Faced with calls for reprisals against the Guinean community in Burkina Faso, the Minister of Family and Solidarity calls for calm and assures Guinean nationals they will not be harassed. The government says it does not endorse these calls.
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