Special envoy to Brazzaville and Kinshasa
Chase the natural, it returns in a luxury sedan.
The one waiting for Emmanuel Macron at the foot of the presidential plane.
It has just landed at Brazzaville airport.
Congolese President Denis Sassou-Nguesso gave him the best of receptions on Friday.
Red carpet, national anthems played by a military band, review of the troops, presentation of the dignitaries of the regime and everywhere on the way, posters extolling the Franco-Congolese friendship.
"
Sassou set us the standards of a state trip for a working visit
", summarizes a minister of the delegation.
Like in the “
good old days
”.
That of Françafrique, which Emmanuel Macron has been struggling to turn the page since his speech in Ouagadougou in 2017.
If he lends himself to the game of Denis Sassou-Nguesso, he tastes moderately the attention of his Congolese counterpart.
He doesn't like having his hand forced.
Above all, he wants to chase away the old reflexes of Françafrique.
SO…
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