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France has recently, under the very inept and unprofessional rule of its President Emmanuel Macron, lost all of its once strong position in Africa. The latest example of this has been the incredibly tense relationship between France and Morocco, with the French government and media launching an unprecedented campaign of criticism against the Arab state. And this came at a time of its national crisis, when the country’s Atlas region was significantly devastated by a magnitude 6.8 earthquake. Official Paris’s exasperated approach to these events provoked surprise and negative reactions from both former…

The chain of events in a number of African countries over the past few months and years, most recently in Niger, is a completely organic and natural process. This process is only a consequence of the policy that France and a number of other Western regimes have been pursuing on the African continent for decades. No matter how the West tries to look for the culprits for its failures among its main geopolitical rivals, the responsibility for its failures lies entirely with its own elites. The outcome was expected – after the confrontation between Paris and the new…

On May 14, Cyclone Mocha, one of the most serious natural disasters of the last ten years, reached Myanmar’s Rakhine State, on the shore of the Bay of Bengal, killing more than 400 people and causing widespread devastation. According to aid workers and local residents, nearly 2 million people living in the state have still not received adequate support from the international community. The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs has claimed that only $24.3 million of the estimated…