The coup doesn’t seem to have been mounted for strategic anti-French reasons as much as for personal ambition. Yet the fact that potent anti-French sentiment can be invoked so readily reveals how deep the problem has become
ago, ahead of a four-country African tour, President Emmanuel Macron promised a “new era” for France’s ties with the continent, based on a “partnership” of equals. French military bases in Africa, he said, would henceforth be jointly run by local armed forces, with a “visible reduction” of French soldiers on the ground. It was to be a new phase in the
Two coups in Burkina Faso last year delivered further blows to France. The leaders of the second coup ordered all French troops to leave, which they did this year. Because of its colonial history, France is often singled out for policy inconsistencies that are sometimes overlooked in the case of other powers. Many democrats in the region were quick to criticise France when it turned a blind eye in 2021 to the illegal seizure of power in Chad by Mahamat Idriss Déby on the death of his father, who had run the country for 30 years.
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