{"id":2248,"date":"2020-08-28T13:38:46","date_gmt":"2020-08-28T13:38:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/?p=2248"},"modified":"2020-09-15T13:43:00","modified_gmt":"2020-09-15T13:43:00","slug":"dr-yvan-guichaoua-talks-to-le-monde-on-the-sahel-region","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/2020\/08\/28\/dr-yvan-guichaoua-talks-to-le-monde-on-the-sahel-region\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr Yvan Guichaoua talks to Le Monde on the Sahel region"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article__title\">Despite the coup d&#8217;\u00e9tat and the mistrust of the Malians, France maintains operation &#8220;Barkhane&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__desc\">Paris&#8217; rapid response after the putsch shows its determination to maintain a military presence in the Sahel which is sometimes perceived as an \u201coccupation\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Beyond security,\u00a0<em>&#8220;the French want, I think, to remain influential in their former colonies and to have this leadership in this kind of global division of labor&#8221;<\/em>\u00a0by the great powers, analyzes <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/brussels\/people\/2614\/guichaoua-yvan\">Yvan Guichaoua<\/a>, Sahel expert at the School of international studies at the University of Kent, Brussels:\u00a0<em>\u201cIt&#8217;s a way of perpetuating the story of French greatness among French public opinion\u2026 We are still a great power.\u00a0&#8220;<\/em>\u00a0But, he warned,\u00a0<em>&#8221; the longer you stay, the longer you are likely to be part of the problem. &#8220;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Read the full article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lemonde.fr\/afrique\/article\/2020\/08\/27\/malgre-le-coup-d-etat-et-la-defiance-des-maliens-la-france-maintient-l-operation-barkhane_6050075_3212.html\">here<img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/img.lemde.fr\/2020\/08\/27\/0\/0\/2304\/1536\/688\/0\/60\/0\/91b31f3_251257114-000_1WN5R6.jpg\" width=\"688\" height=\"459\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite the coup d&#8217;\u00e9tat and the mistrust of the Malians, France maintains operation &#8220;Barkhane&#8221;. Paris&#8217; rapid response after the putsch shows its determination to maintain &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/2020\/08\/28\/dr-yvan-guichaoua-talks-to-le-monde-on-the-sahel-region\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":67700,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[807,131004,131000,131002,37],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2248"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/67700"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2248"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2248\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2303,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2248\/revisions\/2303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}