Civilians in Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso have joined junta leaders to celebrate withdrawal of French troops, seeing it as a victory against neo-colonialism.
I don’t know what President Cyril Ramaphosa’s membership is doing for South Africa or what the African Union (AU) membership of the G20 is doing for the continent. But Nigeria’s President Bola Ahmed Tinubu obviously feels that if Ramaphosa can be on the stage at this pageant of global powers, t.
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African states are one-by-one falling outside the shackles of neocolonialism. They are saying "non" to France's longtime domination of African financial, political, economic and security affairs.
By Pepe Escobar
The Cradle
By adding two new African member-states to its roster, last months'