In Mali and Chad, France is overwhelmed on social networks by the Moscow relays.
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Russian flags brandished while those of France are soaring in the demonstrations of opposition in Chad. A junta in power in Mali who, with a certain popular support, breaks all the bridges with Paris to get closer to Moscow. Social networks that seem to buzz only one music. Has France already lost the battle of opinion in the Sahel against Russia?
The objectives and sustainability of Russia’s reinvestment in Africa are still uncertain but its strategy is now better known. If its economic activity is limited to a few mining operations, Moscow has been able to set up thanks to an unparalleled security offer: an official defense agreements and unofficial links with the Wagner group, a nebula close to the Kremlin, providing mercenaries as In Mali, in the Central African Republic or Libya, and “Information War” experts. With obvious success until then.
The recent history of the real-fine Charnier de Gossi, in the center of Mali, is, as such, a case of school. At the end of April, the French armies staff reveals, for the first time, a video filmed by one of its drones. A dozen men appear there, non -French, buried bodies in a common pit. Two days earlier, the French soldiers had transferred their base to the Malian Armed Forces (FAMA) as part of their withdrawal from the country. The dissemination of these images aimed to defuse an intoxication operation developed, according to Paris, by Wagner, the new Russian ally of Bamako, and intended to accuse the French of being responsible for this crime.
“Russian VRP”
Paris thought he was taking the other speed camp and winning a battle in what the chief of the armies of the armies, General Thierry Burkhard, calls the “war of perceptions”, but the argument returned to him as A boomerang, returned to social networks by Malian activists. In particular one of the noisiest of them, Adama Diarra, known as “the brain”. On his Facebook page dated April 26, this founder of the Pan -Africanist movement Yéréwolo standing on the ramparts saw in these images the proof that “” Barkhane “voluntarily spied on the Gossi camp to stick the responsibility of the Charnier on the Fama”. In the process, he asked for the start of all “foreign occupation forces”.
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