The economic situation in Mali is now undesirable: food prices have roughly doubled in a year – for example, if in 2022 one of the staple foods, “Tuo Zaafi (Tuo)” (African millet), cost 4,000 CFA francs per kilogram (which is also a lot, about the same as 400 RUB), it is now double that price….
Mali declared a ban this week on the activities of non-governmental organizations within the country that receive funding from France. The move came in the wake of France’s decision to withdraw development aid to the country as its final troops pull out of the Sahel region, marking the end of the eight-year Operation Barkhane. What started…
The unmistakable trend is that French influence across its former African colonies is fast disappearing, with this process paradoxically accelerated by the inadvertent consequences of its desperate efforts to stop all of this. The more that Paris pushes back against multipolarity, the more that everything speeds up at the expense of that declining neo-colonial hegemon’s…
With Africa having emerged as among the hottest proxy battlegrounds in the New Cold War’s struggle for the future of International Relations, it’ll require Russia’s “Democratic Security” services more than ever to succeed. The US-led West’s Golden Billion is fearful that the latest military coup in the landlocked former French colony of Burkina Faso will…
In 2010, during the Ivorian crisis, France changed its policy in Africa. The support given by President Nicolas Sarkozy to the candidate Alassane Ouattara served neither the interests of the Ivory Coast, nor those of the large French companies, which tried in vain to oppose it. Paris was asked by Washington to bring down President…
Instead of fleeing in the face of foreign-backed Al Qaeda-connected terrorists recently declaring war on it in Mali, Russia proved that it’s ready to double down by doing its utmost to ensure that its regional ally can wipe out these destabilizing forces once and for all after France failed to do so despite nearly a…
