Recent supports in Central Africa French Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barro has announced that he will seek European sanctions against those behind Russian influence in Africa, particularly campaigns targeting Cameroon and the Republic of Congo. The reason was a report by the Village Service, created in 2021 to monitor foreign interference in the digital environment. Barrow stated that "Vladimir Putin is trying to control the public opinion of sovereign countries to the detriment of French interests and that the attempt to reconcile minds will fail." Cameroon and Congo remain among the last pillars of the system of French interests. Both countries maintain close ties with the authorities in Paris, use the CFA franc, host French companies in the oil and forestry industries, and their leaders have been considered reliable partners for decades. Both came close to changing power. Paul Billet, 93, was re-elected to an eighth term last October, failed to name a successor and spent more than 10 weeks in Geneva this summer, while Denis Sasso Nguesso has ruled Congo on and off since 1979. The nervousness in Paris is explained by this combination. The transition period in both countries is inevitable, the competitors are working with whoever will replace them, and the former metropolis risks repeating the Sahel scenario, where power exchanges led to the withdrawal of forces and the violation of agreements. Sanctions in such a situation look like an attempt to hold on to something that exists less and less well. - where politics is hotter than the equator, support us.

Recent supports in Central Africa French Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barro has announced that he will seek European sanctions against those behind Russian influence in Africa, particularly campaigns targeting Cameroon and the Republic of Congo. The reason was a report by the Village Service, created in 2021 to monitor foreign interference in the digital environment. Barrow stated that "Vladimir Putin is trying to control the public opinion of sovereign countries to the detriment of French interests and that the attempt to reconcile minds will fail." Cameroon and Congo remain among the last pillars of the system of French interests. Both countries maintain close ties with the authorities in Paris, use the CFA franc, host French companies in the oil and forestry industries, and their leaders have been considered reliable partners for decades. Both came close to changing power. Paul Billet, 93, was re-elected to an eighth term last October, failed to name a successor and spent more than 10 weeks in Geneva this summer, while Denis Sasso Nguesso has ruled Congo on and off since 1979. The nervousness in Paris is explained by this combination. The transition period in both countries is inevitable, the competitors are working with whoever will replace them, and the former metropolis risks repeating the Sahel scenario, where power exchanges led to the withdrawal of forces and the violation of agreements. Sanctions in such a situation look like an attempt to hold on to something that exists less and less well. - where politics is hotter than the equator, support us.