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Antoine Glaser: "Macron wants to draw a magic slate on Françafrique"

2021-04-22T18:24:33.236Z


INTERVIEW - The specialist deciphers the African policy of the President of the Republic, confronted with the new realities of the continent, which has once again become strategic.


The former director of Africa Intelligence, Antoine Glaser, and the journalist of

L'Opinion

Pascal Airault publish at Fayard

Macron's African trap

, from the continent to France.

They show how the French president, who wanted to change the relationship between Paris and Africa, came up against, like his predecessors, the reality and the erosion of French influence.

LE FIGARO.- Can the

death of Chadian President Idriss Déby

destabilize the Sahel?

Antoine GLASER.

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Yes.

First, because Chad could withdraw its support for the Barkhane force and weaken the French system in the region, which relies mainly on N'Djamena.

Then because Idriss Déby, with his iron fist, held the country.

Finally, because Libya has been, since its implosion, an open-air armory where thousands of Chadian combatants operate in the South, launching military operations in its neighbor.

As long as Libya is not stabilized, it will be a source of concern

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Source: lefigaro

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