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“Macron in Africa, Sisyphus in the Congo”

2023-02-28T19:35:13.025Z


The editorial of Le Figaro, by Philippe Gélie, deputy editor. We must credit Emmanuel Macron with stubbornness and extraordinary enthusiasm. At the time of beginning, from Gabon to Congo, his eighteenth trip to Africa since the beginning of his first mandate, the Head of State is once again overflowing with plans and ambitions. He announces a "visible" reduction in the presence of French troops, an "Africanization" of military footprints in Dakar, Abidjan an


We must credit Emmanuel Macron with stubbornness and extraordinary enthusiasm.

At the time of beginning, from Gabon to Congo, his eighteenth trip to Africa since the beginning of his first mandate, the Head of State is once again overflowing with plans and ambitions.

He announces a "visible"

reduction

in the presence of French troops, an

"Africanization"

of military footprints in Dakar, Abidjan and Libreville, a new

"legal framework"

for the restitution of works of art, a sharing of know-how in the sectors of the future - all presented with

"humility"

and the promise that

"the France team"

will come out of its

"backyard"

to rub shoulders with the game of competition.

The ace !

This virtuous statement, rehashed since the Ouagadougou speech five years ago, remains inaudible in the midst of anti-French propaganda, a conspiratorial din stirred up by Russia and exploited by regimes in search of the "ideal scapegoat

"

.

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Source: lefigaro

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