Outrage as Macron labels African countries ungrateful

2 weeks ago

President Emmanuel Macron is facing an angry backlash from France's remaining allies in West Africa and accusations at home of showing a neo-colonialist attitude after lamenting that African countries "forgot to say thank you" for France's decade-long military deployment to fight militant insurgency. "I think that they forgot to say 'thank you'. It does not matter, it will come with time,"