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.
You've put me in an interesting dilemma. They do but I don't think the same is true for Africa and France.