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EXCLUSIVE. Questioning of the West, consequences of the war in Libya, Françafrique… the president engages in “Point”.
From our special correspondent in Central Africa, Mathilde Siraud
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On saw him in the Gabonese forest, in the back of a Maybach in Brazzaville with President Sassou-Nguesso, as a sales representative for French agriculture and the Montbéliarde cow in Luanda. He was then found dressed in his favorite costume, that of promoter of peace and mediator of conflicts over the war in North Kivu, to end up in the dampness of the Kinshasa night, a Castel in his hand. , the local beer. At the end of an abundant and sometimes cryptic four-day trip to the heat of central Africa, where he was going for the first time, Emmanuel Macron poses with the Point his vision of the major geopolitical upheavals at work on the continent. The President returns to Paris convinced that the voice of France can still carry in Africa, despite…
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