Africa, France and The international community: Its interference in African affairs

Mother Africa

The debate is raging passions and crystallizes emotions. French military interventions in Libya and especially in Abidjan, shocked and even disgusted many Africans. How can we not hear their voices and do not understand? France, like a bullet train image of Machiavelli Western constantly maneuvering to defend its interests over those of the continent. No doubt is therefore more than possible ...


 But let's be clear: the "helping hand" of France to Alassane Ouattara, who is part of the new UN doctrine to protect civilians by all means - which we do not really know where it begins and where it stops - was the least bad solution?
Was sufficiently alleged in Paris, quite rightly, to have left a genocide take place in Rwanda back in 1994, or not intervening to stop the killings during the civil war in Congo - Brazzaville in 1997, to not consider an objective eye interfering in the war between Laurent Gbagbo and Alassane Ouattara. Should they sit idly in the face bloodbath looming? My answer is no, Hell no!

Upon his arrival to power, Nicolas Sarkozy was at pains to break with Chirac's legacy. A license will, exemplified by the merger, among others, with Rwanda and Angola. This was also the case in the Ivorian peace process. Sarkozy had wanted to return to a good start with Laurent Gbagbo, whom he met briefly with whom he has sent his henchmen, Claude Gueant and Robert Bourgi in mind. Sarkozy an old friend of Ouattara, has long thought that he could win, even if the polls had not really convinced. Nothing to spoil, the latter deemed, wrongly, viscerally anti-French, never opposed to the interests of France. "Friends" of Sarkozy did indeed never worn with both FPI leader: Bolloré, Bouygues, Veolia, Vinci, France Telecom or Total can attest ...

So instead of impotence and inertia of the African Union, ECOWAS and the UN have urged Paris to ride in the front line, obviously backwards. And it is one that should not want this intervention is well Ouattara himself, which finally arrived in power in disastrous conditions, as his opponent, also in 2000. Today, even though the responsibility of all this killings lies with Gbagbo, nothing is resolved, especially not this bloody succession of Houphouet .... The hardest part is just beginning.


My Opinion:
 We Africans have our future in our hands, but we need to grow now. Let us stop complaining and be more pragmatic, we know that we need help from our friends and we can not walk alone without looking alongside like horses. And then when there is the starvation in Africa, the firts thing we do is to turn to United Nations and beg for help, so why don't we just ask them to help us before it happens? We need them to help us in our elections without putting their interests in front.We just need them! It's not so hard to say, for I begin to doubt in our abilities to do it by ourselves.
 We need new leaders, new rulers in Africa, that's what democracy is about: CHANGE. Let's not be afraid of change...
They will never do worse  than our current African leaders... But let's keep our faith in GOD.



Dr Cláudio Pinnock