How France Has Continued Exploiting Its Former African Colonies
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Bolloré's private company is exploiting African countries, that much is obvious.
It's more complicated when it comes to recent military operations that included french troops. The original Serval military operation in Mali was requested by Mali's government at the time, and was a joint Africa-lead operation that involved multiple African and European countries.
Both African and French soldiers died while fighting terrorist groups threatening Mali during these operations.
France's government certainly has some afterthought when they decided to interviene, the most obvious is the desire to have influence in the region. But it's not comparable to colonial times as the headline imply.