Vol 65 No 19 |
- FRANCE
- AFRICA
But the military review comes as Paris struggles to reframe many other dimensions of its African engagement amid a climate of mistrust echoed in social media and radical politics – epitomised when new Senegalese Prime Minister Ousmane Sonko shared a Dakar podium with veteran French leftist Jean-Luc Mélenchon in May (AC Vol 65 No 11 Faye's diplomatic rounds)...
This approach stands in stark contrast to the tone set by Sonko his political mentor who on 16 May chose to join the visiting Jean-Luc Mélenchon a French far-left leader and fierce opponent of Macron on a public platform in Dakar...
The election was eventually won by a leftist coalition whose public face is a resurgent La France Insoumise leader Jean-Luc Mélenchon...
Prime Minister Ousmane Sonko hosting the veteran French leftist Jean-Luc Mélenchon in Dakar launched a diatribe against France and the EU complaining that they failed to speak out against former President Macky Sall's crackdown on dissent (AC Vol 65 No 4 Fury as Sall's vote delay unleashes mayhem)...