Julien Mattia
In Mali there is currently such a tendency, Macron told the Sunday newspaper “Le Journal du Dimanche”. If the country continues to develop in this direction, he will bring the French soldiers home.
France is deployed in Mali with more than 5,000 soldiers to fight Islamist terrorism. The Bundeswehr has also stationed several hundred soldiers there.
Macron said he had made it clear to West African heads of state and government that he would not support any government that no longer had democratic legitimacy. On this Sunday, the states of the West African Economic Community Ecowas wanted to advise in Ghana.
In the country of 20 million people, putschist leader Assimi Goïta had himself proclaimed the new interim president on Friday evening. Goïta led a military coup last August that overthrew President-elect Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta. Earlier this week, the military also forced previous interim president Bah N’Daw and Prime Minister Moctar Ouane to resign.