President’s comments come ahead trip to continent as Paris seeks to counter growing Chinese and Russian influence
followed suit last month, asking Paris to empty its garrison of about 400 special forces.
Macron said France must show “deep humility” in Africa, amid what he called an “unprecedented historic situation” of security challenges and the climate crisis. The French president has been under pressure to step up his Africa policy since a landmark speech he gave to students at a university insix years ago, in which he pledged to break away from France’s former post-colonial policies in Africa and criticised the “crimes of European colonisation” promising a “truly new relationship” between Africa and Europe.
Macron said the era of Françafrique was firmly over but acknowledged there was more to be done to boost Paris’s relationship with African countries. He added that a new law would go before the French parliament in the coming weeks to fix a “method and criteria” for returning artworks to African countries from French museums.
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