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Published on: 31/01/2025 | 00:00:00
AI Summary:
N’Djamena abruptly cut ties with Paris in December and ended a military pact. The sprawling nation is a prime spot for monitoring and launching missions against the swarm of armed groups. In military-led Niger, Burkina Faso and Mali, some 4,000 French soldiers have exited. French: ‘Number one language’ France’s biggest soft power lies in the reach of the French language. Of the 300 million French speakers in the world by 2022, close to 50 percent lived in Africa, according to the Organisation of French-Speaking Countries. In Cameroon, where French and English are official languages, mixed phrases like tu go où, which means where are you going, are common. Senegal’s President Bassirou Diomaye Faye has attempted to shake the hold of the language. His official speeches are delivered in both French and the dominant Wolof. He has also moved to set up a new agency that will rename streets and squares across the country. Only Guinea-Conakry and Mauritania left the zone upon independence. Many scholars and African leaders note this limits the CFA’s growth. Others have called it a neo-colonial tool of the French. Paris also planned to ship weapons to start a local conflict, although its operation was intercepted. It is also being complicated by a regional push in the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) to form a common currency to rival the European Union’s euro. So far, neither currency has emerged. There are plans to permanently reduce troop presence in countries that have not yet kicked out French forces.
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