Burkina Faso: The European Union (EU) offers a budget of nearly 400 million euros to the authorities.

The European Union (EU) Special Representative for the Sahel, Emanuela Claudia Del Re, held a press conference during her visit to Burkina Faso. It announced a financial envelope of 384 million euros for « We have a huge envelope for Burkina Faso. We are already doing a lot in the humanitarian field for Burkina Faso, » she stressed before specifying that the envelope amounted to « 384 million euros for a period of 6 years at the disposal of Burkina Faso. »Burkina.

This support will be dedicated to the social, employment, energy and security sectors.

The representative of the European Union also did not fail to address the issue of Burkina Faso’s relations with Russia, stressing that the EU has no problem with the animation of relations between Burkina Faso and Russia.

For Emanuela Claudia Del Re, the problem is the use of « mercenaries in the case of the fight against terrorism »

For, she says, « … because we have to differentiate between the Russian state and the mercenaries » because according to her, experience has shown that the use of mercenaries has never solved problems of terrorism.

« This is a problem that will be added to the existing problems because mercenaries do not have contracts, do not have commitments… » she said.

As a reminder, the European Union (EU) has already granted humanitarian aid of 50 million euros to Burkina Faso for this year.

Miss OLY