French senators (94) sent an open letter to Macron in which they informed him and the public about the collapse of the French strategy in #Africa, Le Figaro reported.

"Today Niger, yesterday Mali, Central African Republic, Burkina Faso have rejected France, French forces, French companies...," the senators lament. #Niger

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Armed Forces Minister Sébastien Lecornu on Monday refuted the idea that Operation Barkhane was a failure, in response to an open letter from around a hundred senators addressed to French President Emmanuel Macron.

"Today Niger, yesterday Mali, the Central African Republic, Burkina Faso rejected France, French forces, French companies", underline the senators LR Roger Karoutchi, Bruno Retailleau and Christian Cambon in their letter signed by 94 parliamentarians and published by Le Figaro.

"At our expense, after the failure of Operation Barkhane, here are the militias (of the Russian group) Wagner, with little regard for human rights or democracy, but perfectly available to all dictators or leaders who maintain power by forming a coalition their populations against the former colonial power", deplore Messrs.

Karoutchi, Retailleau and Cambon, respectively First Vice-President of the Senate in charge of International Relations, President of the Republicans group in the Senate and President of the Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee of the Senate, and their co-signatories.

They call for a review of France's policy in Africa, without making any proposals. "I cannot let it be said that Operation Barkhane was a failure," reacted Sébastien Lecornu in a statement sent to journalists on Monday evening.

"Our army has constantly pushed back terrorist groups in the Sahel, saving thousands of lives there and protecting those of the French from the threat of attacks on our soil," he said.

"Barkhane was not a failure: it's a mistake to say that", insists Sébastien Lecornu, while stressing that there are "of course lessons to be learned, as for all crises and for all military operations".

Operation Serval launched in January 2013 against jihadist groups who had conquered northern Mali and threatened to descend further south was succeeded in August 2014 by Barkhane, targeting jihadists scattered in the countries of the Sahelo-Saharan strip.

President Emmanuel Macron officially announced the end of the operation last November.

https://www.africanews.com/2023/08/08/france-operation-barkhane-not-a-failure-says-the-minister-of-the-armed-forces/

Macron is has spoilt thier cash machine , this is clear Africa has been the one feeding lazy France

Exploitation

Froblems everywhere

African Nations are becoming puns in the hand of global powers.

Be prepared for counter coups, whoever thinks the Franch and its supporters will give up on their juicy colonies is ignorant. Once this waive of empty threat from ECOWAS wanes, the real battle begins.

Like they did in 17th and 18th century, they are about to split and share Africa again.

Whether Russia, China, Franch, UK, US, they are all slave masters looking for opportunities to exploit our resources. None of them is father Christmas

Whatever has a beginning must surely have an end. France's thieving games in Africa are sadly over.

It is funny how unprepared Islamic leaders want to lead their country to horrors.
I just hope that the fall out of these coups and expulsion of Western elements in Sahel will only affect the Sahel regions. We don't want refugees in Middle belt, South East and South South of Nigeria. The refugees from those areas are mostly islamist and we do not want any demographic upheaval in our clime

France seems to be the only former colonial "devil" who has refused to relinquish its hold over its former colonies. If not that I don't subscribe to military govt, I'm very pleased that the Nigér soldiers are anti-France.

RenaissanceGuy:
France seems to be the only former colonial "devil" who has refused to relinquish its hold over its former colonies. If not that I don't subscribe to military govt, I'm very pleased that the Nigér soldiers are anti-France.

Imagine their tight grip on the African countries? How will they grow. Haiti is another example of a country that can't grow

Everybody is watching out for what France is going to do, since their cash cow is rebelling

Ehya

Africa has woken up from their cursed slumber 😎
The time has come for Africa to unite and stand against western colonial devils destroying the continent under the cloak of Democracy.