Emmanuel Macron placed his eighteenth trip to Africa to Gabon, Angola, Congo and the DRC under the sign of the end of Françafrique, of which he declared in Libreville that “the age is well and truly over
”
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His formula echoes his speech in Ouagadougou, in 2017, affirming:
“There is no longer any African policy from France.”
It is clear that in 2023, there is no longer any French policy in Africa and that France has lost Africa.
But Africa and France have gained nothing from it.
For Africa, as for France and for Europe, Emmanuel Macron excels at deconstructing but struggles to reconstruct.
His diagnosis is as accurate as his inconsistent action, paralyzed by the deadly logic of
“at the same time”
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France, after ten years of a major military engagement which cost the lives of 58 of its soldiers and mobilized 1 billion euros per year, was pitifully expelled from Mali in 2022. It was the same in the Central African Republic and in Burkina Faso.
Militarily, Operation Barkhane…
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