The risk is that it rises into something much larger that then presents a much greater threat on the global scene,' on expert told Newsweek.

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It's a turning of the page in Franco-African diplomatic relations. For the first time since the decolonisation of the French colonies in the 1960s, there will be no formal French military bases on the ...