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TO ANALYSE. Two cartoons featuring Wagner mercenaries helping Africans against the French “invader” have appeared on social networks.
By Théo Sauvignet
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Un Malian soldier and a Wagner mercenary side by side to fire on zombies marked with a french flaga Russian stoned to the ground a menacing rat named Emmanuel, in sailor, after he invaded the house of an African. This is the kind of representation conveyed by two cartoons that have appeared on the networks in recent weeks.
These clips praise the friendship between African countries and Russia, which would be there to free them from the French neocolonial invader. With a clear if not final message, the videos are relayed among African anti-France networks, mainly on Facebook. The goal is obvious: to make local populations think that France is present in Africa only to plunder its resources and that Moscow is the saving ally that allows…