Emmanuel Macron appoints a slayer of Françafrique as “special envoy” to Africa. Jean-Marie Bockel will have to submit his recommendations to the Élysée in July.
After a series of coups d'état in Mali (2020, 2021), Burkina Faso (2022) then Niger (2023), the military juntas that came to power in these countries pushed out the French army. France currently has a thousand soldiers in Chad, which hosts the command of the French Forces in the Sahel.