{"id":3352,"date":"2025-07-21T15:30:02","date_gmt":"2025-07-21T14:30:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/?p=3352"},"modified":"2025-07-19T16:34:56","modified_gmt":"2025-07-19T15:34:56","slug":"update-21-july-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/?p=3352","title":{"rendered":"Update 21 July 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Please note: the Francophone Africa blog will be taking a break over the summer holiday. We\u2019ll be back on 8 September<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Gnassingbe\u2019s Power Grab Sparks Rare Protests in Togo, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.worldpoliticsreview.com\/togo-protests-gnassingbe\/\">WPR<\/a><\/p>\n<p>France signals willingness to discuss reparations for colonial massacres in Niger, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/jul\/15\/france-willingness-discuss-reparations-niger?\">The Guardian<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00abCe changement est n\u00e9cessaire\u00bb: \u00e0 Dakar, la France ferme sa derni\u00e8re base militaire en Afrique de l\u2019Ouest, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lefigaro.fr\/international\/ce-changement-est-necessaire-a-dakar-la-france-ferme-sa-derniere-base-militaire-en-afrique-de-l-ouest-20250717?\">Le Figaro<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For West Africa, the Gold Boom Is a Double-Edged Sword, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.worldpoliticsreview.com\/west-africa-gold-mining\/?\">WPR<\/a><\/p>\n<p>C\u00f4te d&#8217;Ivoire: Ouattara se prononcera \u00abdans les jours qui viennent\u00bb sur sa candidature \u00e0 un 4e mandat, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rfi.fr\/fr\/afrique\/20250622-c%C3%B4te-d-ivoire-ouattara-se-prononcera-dans-les-jours-qui-viennent-sur-sa-candidature-%C3%A0-un-4e-mandat\">RFI<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Enough Is Enough&#8221;: Ouattara, Paris, le 12 juillet, 2025, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=9IV1YaigU34\">YouTube<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Please note: the Francophone Africa blog will be taking a break over the summer holiday. We\u2019ll be back on 8 September Gnassingbe\u2019s Power Grab Sparks Rare Protests in Togo, WPR France signals willingness to discuss reparations for colonial massacres in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/?p=3352\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"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-3352","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\/3352","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\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3352"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3352\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3354,"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3352\/revisions\/3354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}