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Burkino Faso's junta govt orders French troops to depart country within a month

<span style="color: #222222;">Burkino Faso's junta government ordered French troops to depart the country within a month. National broadcaster RTB announced the decision, citing the official government press agency.</span> <br />''<br />''According to media reports, the actual decision to end the deployment of French troops in the country was made on Wednesday.<br />''<br />'' Hundreds demonstrated in the capital Ouagadougou on Friday, chanting anti-France slogans and calling upon the French army to leave the country.<br />''<br />''<span style="color: #222222;">The decision comes five months after France pulled its last remaining troops from the neighbouring West African nation of Mali after nine years of operation.</span><br />

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