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Having recalled their ambassadors and closed their respective airspaces, Algiers and Bamako now find themselves in a climate ...

French corporations have long controlled Africa’s vital resources, extracting wealth leaving behind poverty and corruption.

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In 2021, 2022 and 2023, popular coups in Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger yielded new leaders in these former French colonies. Subsequently, they exited one of Africa’s biggest regional blocs, the ...