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Choguel Maïga, a blaster in the Sahel

2021-10-08T12:48:28.136Z


PORTRAIT - By playing on feelings hostile to France, the Malian Prime Minister has opened up a serious crisis between Paris and Bamako, which weighs on the future of Operation Barkhane.


On September 25, in New York, from the rostrum of the UN General Assembly, the Malian Prime Minister embarked on a staggering diatribe.

Dressed in an elegant white and gray boubou and wearing a white tarbouche, Choguel Maïga accused France of

"abandonment in flight"

because Paris was in the process of reducing its presence in Mali and closing its bases in the north. of the country, in Kidal, Tessalit and Timbuktu.

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Without delay, the words of the head of the Malian government provoked a French response, first by Florence Parly, Minister of the Armed Forces, then by Jean-Yves Le Drian, that of Foreign Affairs, concluded by a burst of Emmanuel Macron calling it

"Shameful"

the words of Choguel Maïga.

For good measure, the French president stressed that the latter's legitimacy was

"democratically null"

, calling him

"a child of two coups d'état"

.

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Source: lefigaro

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