Photos posted a few days ago by the public broadcaster Burkina 24 TV prove that the strengthening of the army is significant. China provided, among others, six fire support vehicles, four SR5 multi-launch rocket launchers with two vehicles filled with ammunition, six self-propelled mortars and two command vehicles. Everything manufactured by the Chinese company Norinco.
Burkina Faso also received six DongFeng EQ2050 (Mengshi) armored vehicles, equipped with laser-guided missiles, as assured by Captain Ibrahim Traore, the leader of the country's ruling military junta, who personally handed over the Chinese weapons to selected military units.
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China is arming Burkina Faso
Burkina Faso is hastily expanding its armed forces because it has been struggling with constant jihadist attacks for several years.who have spread throughout the Sahel, in whose lands they want to create a caliphate.
According to the African Center for Strategic Studies (ACSS) Over the past three years, an average of almost 10,500 people died in this region of Africa. people per year. Last year, as much as 55 percent. these victims were in Burkina Faso.
Captain Traore's junta is losing this war against the terrorists. Currently, he controls only 40 percent. national territory, according to ACSS.
China already supported Burkina Faso in this fight last year, providing the junta with 100 new armored vehicles..
While financial details of the current shipment remain undisclosed, the African country's modest defense budget suggests China may have provided it with a very attractive loan. Thanks to this approach China has become the main supplier of weapons not only in Burkina Faso, but almost throughout Africa. As a result, approximately 70 percent of the population currently uses Chinese armored vehicles. African countries.
China established diplomatic relations with Burkina Faso, or Upper Volta as the country was then called, in 1973, but severed them 20 years later, only to re-establish them in 2018.
