Attacks on French embassies in Africa since 2000
Friday’s attack on the French embassy in Burkina Faso’s capital Ouagadougou is the fifth in a series of attacks on French embassies in Africa since 2000.
Mauritania, 8 August 2009: Three people, two of them French gendarmes, were slightly injured in an Islamist bomb blast on the country’s embassy in the capital Nouakchott – the first suicide bombing to have taken place in the former French colony.
Ivory Coast, 8 April 2011: The French embassy in the capital Abidjan was fired on by militants loyal to the country’s strongman Laurent Gbagbo, when they attacked the headquarters of his rival, UN-recognised President Alassane Ouattara.
Central African Republic, 26 December 2012: French forces were deployed around France’s embassy in Bangui after protesters angered by a rebel advance in the north of the country hurled stones at the building, tore down the French flag, burned tires and vandalised the building’s entrance.
Libya, 23 April 2013: Two French gendarmes were injured, one of them seriously, when a car bomb exploded at France’s embassy in Tripoli.
Source: France 24
05/03/2018 @ 22:02
MORE OF SUCH ATTACKS ON THESE BLUE EYED THIEVES EMBASSIES AND ASSETS IN AFRICA SHOULD BE ENCOURAGED. THESE DEVILS CALLED THE FRENCH ARE SUCKING THE BLOOD OF AFRICANS. THEY SHOULD BE DEALT WITH OUT RIGHTLY SO THEY CAN START LOOKING AT US AFRICANS LIKE HUMAN BEINGS ALSO AND TO STOP THEIR CRIMINAL ACT OF LOOTING AFRICA.