Protests against the French military presence have been taking place for over a year.
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What are the pretexts, the deeper logic of the French Malian intervention?
Neocolonialism and the civil war in Mali bring regional instability
Why are the French once again firing into a continent?
First, France has major investments in Niger and Mali. At bottom, this is about Francs (or Euros, as it may be). Some 75 percent of France's energy needs come from nuclear power, and a cheap source is its old colonial empire in the region (that besides Mali and Niger included Senegal, Mauritania, Guinea, Ivory Coast, Burkina Faso, Chad, Algeria, and the Central African Republic).
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