{"id":2626,"date":"2020-06-15T18:03:31","date_gmt":"2020-06-15T17:03:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/?p=2626"},"modified":"2020-06-15T18:03:31","modified_gmt":"2020-06-15T17:03:31","slug":"update-on-west-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/?p=2626","title":{"rendered":"Update on West Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<h2 class=\"article-header__title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cfr.org\/blog\/french-led-decapitation-strike-aqim-mali\">French-Led Decapitation Strike on AQIM in Mali<\/a><\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<div>France&#8217;s recent &#8216;decapitation strike&#8217; on Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb will be good for deflecting growing domestic criticism of France&#8217;s &#8216;war&#8217; in the western Sahel. But it is unlikely to improve long-term security for populations in the region.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Read more on <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cfr.org\/blog\/french-led-decapitation-strike-aqim-mali\">Council on Foreign Relations<\/a><\/strong><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<h2 class=\"titre \"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ouest-france.fr\/monde\/afrique\/le-gouvernement-enterine-la-fin-du-franc-cfa-dans-un-projet-de-loi-6841246\">Le gouvernement ent\u00e9rine la fin du franc CFA dans un projet de loi<\/a><\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<div>The CFA franc is to be replaced by the Eco in West Africa, the French government has announced<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Read more on <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ouest-france.fr\/monde\/afrique\/le-gouvernement-enterine-la-fin-du-franc-cfa-dans-un-projet-de-loi-6841246\">Ouest France<\/a><\/strong><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>French-Led Decapitation Strike on AQIM in Mali France&#8217;s recent &#8216;decapitation strike&#8217; on Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb will be good for deflecting growing domestic criticism of France&#8217;s &#8216;war&#8217; in the western Sahel. But it is unlikely to improve long-term security &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/?p=2626\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2626"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2626\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2628,"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2626\/revisions\/2628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}