2023-07-21 15:24:58
In a recent interview in the newspaper Le Monde, the President of the Republic Macky Sall had not hidden his feelings regarding the mission sent by France to his main opponent, Ousmane Sonko: “I found it inelegant that Paris “assigned” (in March) an adviser from the Elysée to meet my opponent (Ousmane Sonko). However, this will not break our relationship. Thus President Macky Sall let his heart speak. This phase was to take on diplomatic proportions capable of affecting relations between Senegal and France.
During a cabinet reshuffle orchestrated by the Elysée, Macron seems to be taking the bull by the horns. In the process, it is a decision envisaged at the end of the month which is announced and which does not go unnoticed in the eyes of those who have focused on this fact marking the meeting between Ousmane Sonko and the number 2 of the Africa cell (at the Élysée) for a good two hours.
Indeed, Jeune Afrique, learns that “the adviser to the French President on African issues since 2017 will change position at the end of July”. It is of course Franck Paris,
Is this a response to the frustration born of this meeting between the opponent Ousmane Sonko, president of the Pastef party and the Elysée emissary? Isn’t the French President reviewing his relations with Africa and particularly with Senegal in a context of various changes?
Despite this decision that Emanuel Macron plans to take at the end of July, our colleagues from “Jeune Afrique” specify that Franck Paris’ successor will be known at the end of August. Nadège Chouat, the deputy Africa adviser remains in post.
While he wanted to leave in April 2022 during the re-election of Macron, the change of horizon of the 45-year-old diplomat will probably be accompanied by many questions with regard to this visit to the Élysée returned to Ousmane Sonko.
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