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In the news: Barkhane and Macron's chin blow that outrages Africans

At the same time numerous and lively, the reactions are going well in Africa after Emmanuel Macron, of the summit of NATO, announced a meeting in Pau with the presidents of the countries of G5 Sahel, intended to put the countries face their responsibilities (voices being heard here and there in Africa against the presence of the Barkhane force, including even, sometimes, government voices). In Pau, the French president expects leaders of these countries " precise answers ," he said.

And in one of the G5 Sahel countries, Burkina Faso, Emmanuel Macron's invitation does not pass, because it recalls the " colonial times, " said Wakat Sera, newspaper according to which the French president " threw out his feet in the dish "announcing that it will condition the maintenance of Barkhane in the Sahel region to" unambiguous positioning ", from the countries of this region where the French force is engaged in the fight against terrorism.

Macron expressed his " fed up ," said the Ugandan daily, but not that. He " perhaps " also expressed a " feeling of helplessness " in a struggle that becomes " endless ". And Wakat Will be urging African leaders to seize this opportunity of December 16 to say to the " great sachem " that " more than France, the national armies of the G5 Sahel countries are bereaved daily by this fight against terrorism ", they who are no longer able to " count their deaths ", without omitting the " thousands of displaced people in their own countries ". And these African leaders must show the French president that the long-term struggle against terrorism is a " same fight " for France and the Sahel, insists Wakat Sera (underlined here that, by " same fight ", this fellow Ouagalese hears " Same fight ", but it is in English that he wants to express it).

In Burkina-Faso again, the newspaper Les Echos du Faso summarizes in its own way the chin of Emmanuel Macron. " While I wash your back, do not let your fellow citizens hit me on the back, " he says. And this fellow Ouagalese wonders what Pau will meet the President of Burkina Faso, Roch Marc Christian Kaboré. " Like Maurice Yaméogo, will the first Voltaic president give up the presence of French troops on our soil? As Sankara, will he answer that we prefer to rely on our own forces and reject the help of French troops in the fight against terrorism? "Asks Les Echos du Faso.

The G5 Sahel at attention

Same resentment in the press in Senegal, a country that is not yet a member of G5 Sahel. Feeling equally concerned about the case, the Senenews site sees it as a " Macron summons " and treats " African leaders " as " puppets of France ". And this Dakar newspaper online warns: " The one who pays the violins chooses the music! ".

The Senegalese Life does not write anything else, which sees an " order to be executed to the letter ". Not hesitating to probe the " head " of the French president, this Senegalese online newspaper explains that the French army " saves " daily African lives. And so the military operation Barkhane is " blameless ". Conclusion of La Vie Senegalaise : " To the presidents of the poor continent to travel thousands of kilometers to present [with] feet [of Emmanuel Macron] , who wants " clear and assumed answers " from his governors. Sorry ! From his peers. This is also the independence to the African, "sighs this Senegalese newspaper.

In Ivory Coast, two "Unes" of newspapers also point this case. " It is spoiled between Macron, Kaboré, IBK, Issouffou, Déby ... ", formulates that of the newspaper Le Nouveau Courrier.

Meanwhile, that of the independent daily L'Inter announces " great changes in relations between Africa and France ."

And even in France, a daily criticizes this initiative of the head of state. The newspaper Libération, which describes as " clumsiness " the meeting of December 16 in Pau set by the head of state, which gives " the impression to convene, not to invite [...] the presidents concerned to "clarify" the situation. Emmanuel Macron himself falls into the caricature of an imposed domination report. From the Sahel to Central Africa, African netizens were not mistaken, lambasting this attitude deemed " arrogant, " states Libération.

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