France lost its 50% export subsidy from Sahel states, now unviable as Chirac and Mitterrand prophesied. In March 2008, former French President Jacques Chirac said: “Without Africa, France will slide down into the rank of a third [world] power” Chirac’s predecessor François Mitterand already prophesied in 1957 that: “Without Africa, France will have no history in the 21st century” 65YEARS THEY PRACTICED NEO COLONIALISM - even after WW2 French british empire CRUMBLED - Dansk to HILTER. ECOWAS is fucking joke - Marcon has host a african conference in ENGLISH speaking Ruto's #KENYA instead of FRANCOPHONE west africa country - think how BAD was that.