If the crisis and the upheavals that are tearing the relationship between France and Mali to have a face, it would undoubtedly be that of Choguel Kokalla Maïga. The transitional prime minister is not a man to mince his words or to shrink from a provocation. A trendy concept would say "divisive". Since his arrival at the "prime minister's office" last June, he has multiplied shattering declarations against the caciques of the regime of Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta, known as IBK, overthrown by a putsch in August 2020, but above all against the presence and influence French. On September 26, at the United Nations rostrum, he described the deployment of Barkhane, whose numbers are expected to drop by half by the end of 2022, as "a
full blast
», Provoking an ulcerated response from Emmanuel Macron.
Far from calming things down, taking advantage of the anger ignited in public opinion in Bamako by the sudden reaction of the French president, the Prime Minister adds, assuring that Paris had "
an agenda.
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