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Re:President of Chad Killed on the Battlefield by jcranmer on Tuesday April 20, 2021 @10:44AM (#26875364)
You can largely replace "western powers" with "France" here. France is pretty well-known for being extremely cozy with the dictators of its former colonies, so long as they represent stability rather than insurgency and let France have some measure of influence in the country. France is pretty unabashedly neocolonial in its treatment of Francophone Africa.
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Re:President of Chad Killed on the Battlefield by versale on Tuesday April 20, 2021 @12:21PM (#26876771)
I'd like to add that it is France who controls Chad's currency policy with CFA francs [1]. Some people say it's a modern mean for wealth extraction from Africa.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CFA_franc

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