Re:Business in Africa: 1.2B opportunities
by toyg on Friday April 15, 2016 @07:30PM
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"Set" as in the present verb: "the West" is still very much meddling in African politics, France in particular routinely engages in direct military terms all over the continent.
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France in particular routinely engages in direct military terms
How much of it is of the sort described in the article, of securing safe passage for french citizens out of Cote d'Ivoire because a civil war was breaking out?
From wikipedia: "French forces returned to Côte d'Ivoire in 2011 to remove the Ivorian president. In the same year, France played a pivotal role in the 2011 military intervention in Libya against Muammar Gaddafi. The year after, France intervened in Mali during that country's civil war"...