2023-09-03 11:00:00
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LETTER FROM MAGHREB. While the Sahel states are breaking with Paris, this little music is gaining momentum in North Africa.
By Benoît Delmas Several thousand people gathered this Saturday, September 2, 2023, in Niamey and Ouallam (south-west) to demand the departure of French forces from Niger. © – / AFP Published on 03/09/2023 at 11:00
And if the epidemic of putschs observed in the Sahel contaminates the Maghreb? What if this lattice contagion spread geopolitical oil? What if this hubbub of presidential guards, deposing the president they were supposed to protect, became a ground swell? And if the braided men who forcibly occupy the palaces of Mali, Burkina Faso, Guinea, Niger, Gabon, a camarilla of uniforms sweeping away with the same gesture a quasi-monarchical dynasty (Ali Bongo) and democratically elected president (Bazoum), emulators? At the dawn of an “African summer”? If the theory is seductive, pleasing to the ear, easy to discuss for lazy experts, it does not correspond to the realities.
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