Gabon, Niger, Mali… France facing the challenge of repeated putsches in Africa

2023-08-30 22:08:28

An “epidemic” of coups in French-speaking Africa. By pronouncing this very strong word, Monday, August 28 at the Elysee Palace in his back-to-school speech to diplomats, Emmanuel Macron was targeting Niger, which fell into the hands of putschist generals a month earlier. Just like, before him, his two neighbors in the Sahel, Mali and Burkina Faso. Could the president then imagine that one more country would suffer the same fate, barely more than 24 hours after his exit?