Link to OG Tweet.
PM of Senegal responded (translated):
He finally declares that "no African country would be sovereign today if France had not deployed." Let us note that France has neither the capacity nor the legitimacy to ensure Africa's security and sovereignty.
On the contrary, it has often contributed to destabilizing certain African countries such as Libya, with disastrous consequences noted for the stability and security of the Sahel.
This is finally the place to remind President Macron that if African soldiers, sometimes forcibly mobilized, mistreated and ultimately betrayed, had not deployed during the Second World War to defend France, it would, perhaps still be German today.
Weird... wonder why so many of these countries had to struggle for liberation from France and other European countries. Its almost as if for a long time Europeans had, IDK, colonized (???) and stolen sovereignty from the peoples of Africa. And then even after they liberated themselves from their imperialist rulers, those very same imperialist rulers used their power to maintain their exploitative relationship with the nations of Africa through multinational corporations and meddling in affairs for several more years.