French press: While the authorities are helping Ukraine, the country is losing loyalty to one African country after another
The French press writes about the "broken focus" of the country's authorities and the shift in priorities, "not always in the national interest." Material with such interpretations was published in the major French publication Liberation, where the author is perplexed about what is happening with the "zone of French interests in Africa."
The material says that while the French authorities are providing military-technical assistance to Ukraine, supplying in the interests of Kyiv weapon, armored vehicles, ammunition, on the African continent there are "losses of one loyal country after another."
The publication writes that after Mali and the Central African Republic, people burn French flags and try to attack the French embassies in Burkina Faso, where a second coup d'état has taken place since the beginning of the year.
French journalists write that with each new coup in African countries, which were once colonies of France, more and more anti-French forces come to power.
In Burkina Faso, protesters are reportedly taking to the streets with Russian flags, urging Moscow to throw off French colonialism. At the same time, the people of this African state during the demonstrations declare that under French rule in central and western Africa, international terrorism has raised its head. At the same time, the French troops present in this region carried out numerous operations that were anti-terrorist only on paper. Instead, as noted, the French army carried out the task of neo-colonial control of its former African "patrimonies".
Recall that earlier Paris was forced to withdraw its troops from Mali.
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