Category Archive: FRANCE

France Says Troops Will Stay in Mali Even After United Nations Forces Arrive

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Paris has been re-occupying the West African state since January See >> French Imperialism Maintains Thousands of Troops in Africa By Abayomi Azikiwe Libya 360° French Defense Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian has visited the… Read More

Revised Mali Operation Approaches

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Alexander Mezayev Libya 360° It’s the third month since the French troops entered Mali. The action entailed the involvement of the African-led International Support Mission to Mali (AFISMA), an Economic Community of West… Read More

Seleka Rebels Form New Government in the Central African Republic While France Deploys Additional Troops

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France deploys additional troops while leader consolidates power By Abayomi Azikiwe Libya 360° Michel Djotodia, the leader of the Seleka Coalition, which seized power in the Central African Republic of Bangui on March… Read More

Germany to Join France’s Prolonged War in Mali

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Interview with Abayomi Azikiwe A political analyst tells Press TV that the war in Mali is going to be a very, very protracted conflict and of course France as well as the United… Read More

Intervention in Mali

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Crossed Crocodiles The French left as well as the the right have dreams of imperial expansion.  A number of NATO participants share a vision of the Mediterranean as a NATO lake, an internal… Read More

Civilian Massacres: NATO Perpetrates a Worsening Humanitarian Crisis in Mali

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‘French invasion worsens humanitarian crisis inside Mali’ Published on 25 Feb 2013 NATO and its supporters are actually worsening the situation of humanitarian crisis in Mali though their intervention was claimed to stabilize… Read More

UNAC Holds Educational Conference Call on the Imperialist War in Mali

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Activists from across the U.S. and Canada participate while imperialist war intensifies North Africa Abayomi Azikiwe Libya 360° An educational conference call was convened by the United National Anti-War Coalition (UNAC) on the… Read More

‘US Troops to Fuel Tensions Across Africa’ as Humanitarian Crisis in Mali Deepens

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Abayomi Azikiwe says that the recent developments will increase tensions and destabilization not just in Mali and Niger but throughout the entire region of West Africa and the northern regions of the continent… Read More

Hollande Wins UNESCO Peace Prize for Launching a War on Mali

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‘A very unfortunate decision’: French President gets UNESCO peace prize As French president Francois Hollande is set to receive UNESCO’s peace prize for ‘peace and stability’ in Africa, Abayomi Azikiwe, editor for Pan-African… Read More

France’s War in Mali. Was it Started to Sell the New Rafale Fighter Jet?

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A $12 billion ‘deal of the century’ with India may point to the real reason why France launched its African war. Finnian Cunningham More than a century ago, William Randolph Hearst, one of… Read More

Anti-War Movement in the United States Opposes French, US Intervention in Mali

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National conference call to educate activists on reasons behind imperialist invasion May 25, 2013: Draft Call for Conference on Africa & U.S. Imperialism Abayomi Azikiwe Libya 360° On Sunday, February 24, the United National… Read More

The West’s War Against African Development Continues

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The African Union, Algeria and Mali Dan Glazebrook Africa’s classic depiction in the mainstream media, as a giant basketcase full of endless war, famine and helpless children creates an illusion of a continent… Read More

UNAC Conference Call on the Situation in Mali

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Join UNAC for an educational conference call on the situation in Mali and Africa.  There will be short presentation by three UNAC leaders followed by questions and discussion.  The conference call will be… Read More

France in Africa: Fifth Republic or Third Empire?

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Dmitry Minin Paris has its own history of meddling into affairs of former French West African colonies, Cote D’Ivoire, for instance. The black continent (Libya, Mali) interventions have increased in scale and have… Read More

Russia is Sending Firearms to Mali

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French soldiers patrol an area in the city of Gao, Mali, February 13, 2013 The head of Russia’s arms export agency says Moscow has delivered a consignment of arms to Mali and may… Read More

French Imperialism Moves Deeper Into Mali

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Clashes escalate in Gao as warplanes bomb northern mountains Abayomi Azikiwe Libya 360° French defense ministry officials have said that they are planning to make a withdrawal from Mali by April. Since January… Read More

Canada Aiding France’s War on Mali

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French foreign minister has referred to it as the “total reconquest” of its former colony. And now Canada is involving itself militarily in Mali, a country where Canadian mining companies have a lucrative… Read More

The War in Mali is Intended to Destabilize the Region for a Generation to Come

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So you have to face the reality that the British plan, which the French are carrying out and Obama’s carrying out is not to liberate these countries and build stable sovereign nations. This… Read More