2023-09-16 22:10:44
New visas for students from Mali, Niger or Burkina Faso who were to continue their studies in France are suspended, due to the closure of French consular services in these countries. This announcement is from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs according to Le Parisien.
“France campus and visa services can no longer operate normally. Artists, students and researchers already in France continue their activities and studies normally, and are welcome”indicated the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
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Campus France, which is the French agency for the promotion abroad of French higher education and the reception of foreign students in France, specifies that the scholarships granted to students from these three countries already on French territory “remain active”.according to the Parisian.
France currently has some 3,000 Malian, 2,500 Burkinabé and 1,200 Nigerien students in its higher education establishments. “The Ministry of Europe and Foreign Affairs has never given instructions to suspend cooperation with Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso, or their nationals. It is France’s cooperation in these three countries which is suspended, taking into account the security and political context.he added.
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Cooperation with Niger and Burkina Faso was suspended respectively on July 29 and then on August 6, a few days following the coup in Niger. In November 2022, the same decision was taken for Mali. Burkina Faso and Mali stand in solidarity with the soldiers who took power in their Nigerien neighbor.
Remember that today, Assimi Goïta, the head of the military junta in Mali, announced the creation of the AES (Alliance of Sahel States) with Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso as members. The objective of this alliance is to establish an architecture of collective defense and mutual assistance for the benefit of their populations.
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