Burkino Faso’s junta government on Saturday ordered French troops to depart the country within a month.
National broadcaster RTB announced the decision, citing the official government press agency.
Agence d’Information du Burkina said the actual decision to end the deployment of French troops on Burkinabe soil was made on Wednesday.
Hundreds demonstrated in the capital Ouagadougou on Friday, chanting anti-France slogans and calling upon the French army to leave the country.
Some of the tensions have to do with the perception that the French military presence has done little to improve security in the conflict-torn country.
