The suspension of the military took place amid growing anger over the failure of local and international forces to curb the escalating violence.
After a week-long delay in protests in Burkina Faso, a French military delegation arrived in Niger.
Hundreds of demonstrations in the city of Kaya surrounded on November 19 trucks and armored vehicles as they passed through Burkina Faso on their way to Mali via Niger.
The group, which had previously met with protests in two other cities along the road, later returned to a camp just north of the capital Ouagadougou.
“The French force is in Niger,” French army spokesman Colonel Pascal Lanni told AFP on Friday, adding that they resumed their march on Thursday under the auspices of the Burkinabe army.
Earlier Thursday, the group stopped at a military base about 30 miles (18 km) northeast of Ouagadougou, pending the outcome of negotiations between the government and the organizers of the protests.
He is on his way to Gao, a French base in Barkhane, which is mobilizing allies in the Sahel region in a crackdown on militias that began in northern Mali about a decade ago.
Speaking to LCI television station earlier this week, French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said “hypocrites” were promoting anti-French sentiment, but hoped Burkinabe officials would take action to find a solution.
Organizers of the demonstrations are a group called the Coalition of the African Patriots of Burkina Faso, or COPA BF. They say the protests seek to expose the flaws in Burkina Faso’s alliance with France.
“Despite the agreements signed with France, we continue to kill large numbers of people and our country is unarmed,” said his spokesman Roland Bayala.
Bayala’s comments echo the sentiments of many people in West Africa who have been frustrated by the country’s military and foreign affairs for failing to prevent violence. France has thousands of troops deployed across the Sahel, where they fight ISIL (ISIS) and al-Qaeda-linked forces.
Security forces in Burkinabe have been hit hard in recent years by terrorists from al-Qaeda-linked militants. He killed police officers 49 and four ordinary people.
Three other people died in the same attack on Wednesday, and hundreds of civilians were killed throughout the year.
Faced with criticism and criticism demanding that the protests be resumed on Saturday, President Roch Kabore vowed on television on Thursday to address the “legitimate failure” in the military.
Schools have been closed across the country in anticipation of a possible upheaval. The mobile network was also shut down from last Saturday under the National Security and Public Security Act.
