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France has always been interested in Africa, but for all the wrong reasons. Here’s a quick lesson on colonialism in less than 5 minutes. Africa's French problem 1:00 PM · Jun 23, 2020·Twitter Media Studio TRT World

Africa doesn’t have a ‘French problem’ and France is not afraid to confront its past. African states are sovereign and make their own decisions.
6:06 PM · Jun 25, 2020·Twitter Web App France Diplomacy
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2./ Quite apart from a pretty biaised “analysis” there are some glaring errors in your video: the maps are wrong, both for former French Colonies and for our military bases, for one thing. And by the way, Ghana has never been a French Colony.
3./ You’ve clearly misunderstood how the Franc zones work. France does not ‘provide the currencies of 14 African countries’; and those currencies are not ‘controlled by the French Treasury’. The facts are here:
 4./ As for military assistance: you’re nearly right, French troops are present in several African countries. But you forgot to say that it was at the request of the governments of the countries in question.
5./ For example, Operation Serval was launched in 2013 at the request of Mali and in accordance with UNSC resolution 2085 (it’s just here: https://undocs.org/en/S/RES/2085(2012)), take a look!)
6./ You like quoting French Presidents, so here’s a quote from President Macron. Have a look at his speech in Ouagadougou in 2017 here: https://www.elysee.fr/emmanuel-macron/2017/11/28/emmanuel-macrons-speech-at-the-university-of-ouagadougou.en
7./ Find out more about France’s cooperation with African countries here: https://www.diplomatie.gouv.fr/en/country-files/africa



But Macron had painted himself into Haftar’s corner and would not abandon his man. While France was reduced to sniping with Italy over energy interests in Libya, the mantle of peacemaker was passed to other pretenders: Russian President Vladimir Putin and German Chancellor Angela Merkel both hosted summits; more recently even Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi tried to engineer a cease-fire. bloomberg

Macron ha perso il controllo della libia, oltre che dell'Africa, per curare le piccole e grandi rivalità. Alla fine, terrorizzato dalla prospettiva dell'avanzamento di Muslim Brotherhood, si è limitato ad eseguire il compitino dettato da Abu Dhabi.
Il cosiddetto political Islam può essere un assetto o una minaccia a seconda del contesto e delle modalità di gestione.