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Mail for example. But there are quite a few French troops still protecting French interests in their various former colonies in Africa - a place where statehoo
by cjbgkagh 4y ago
Mail for example. But there are quite a few French troops still protecting French interests in their various former colonies in Africa - a place where statehood is a nebulous concept so I think it’s fair to say that many of these places still act in effect as protectorates. Add in resource extraction and it also starts to look like a colony again.
- alephxyz 4y agoMost of the mining industry in Mali is owned by Barrick, Allied Gold and Anglogold Ashanti, none of them are French. The French intervention in northern Mali was to avoid a spillover into western Niger (where France sources most of the uranium it uses for its power production).