Bamako s prosecutor has summoned France s former foreign minister Jean-Yves Le Drian to answer corruption accusations as bilateral ties plummet further, Although he has just been released from a decade of service as one of France s most senior ministers by President Emmanuel Macron, Jean-Yves Le Drian is not expected to find the time to answer the summons of the Bamako public prosecutor for interview in the Malian capital at 8 am on Monday 20 June.
, Jean-Yves Le Drian and Florence Parly, so familiar to West African capitals for the past five years as the ministers of foreign affairs and the armed forces, have departed office in President Emmanuel Macron s post-re-election reshuffle.
African activists and politicians offer mixed reviews of President Macron s record but agree that his closest rival would be disastrous for them, Emmanuel Macron, who has been called France s first post-colonial president , is bidding for re-election after a first term in which colonial history cast a long shadow on policies ranging from climate change, job creation, and migration to regional security.
Facing a tough election next year, President Macron is fighting off attacks from the far right and recasting Africa policy, Despite hosting a new-style dialogue with activists and artists and attending a commemoration in Paris for a long hushed-up 1961 massacre of Algerian demonstrators, Emmanuel Macron s overhauling of relations with former African colonies has encountered more protests and criticism.
Moscow s military support for Mali s junta is raising tensions with France, and risks opening up old wounds in the north, Russia has delivered four military helicopters to Mali s military regime, just as the country s latest public row with former colonial power France floods the Bamako and Paris media with angry rhetoric.