{"id":3451,"date":"2026-05-18T15:23:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T14:23:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/?p=3451"},"modified":"2026-05-16T15:49:38","modified_gmt":"2026-05-16T14:49:38","slug":"update-18-may-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/?p=3451","title":{"rendered":"Update 18 May 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Burkina Faso, Niger, Mali. Des dictatures dans la plus pure tradition, <a href=\"https:\/\/afriquexxi.info\/Burkina-Faso-Niger-Mali-Le-retour-des-bonnes-vieilles-methodes\">Afrique XXI<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sudan\u2019s Civil War Is Spreading to Chad. The World Should be Worried, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.worldpoliticsreview.com\/sudan-civil-war-metastasizing-chad\/\">WPR<\/a><\/p>\n<p>En Afrique, la port\u00e9e de la menace des islamistes militants ne cesse de s\u2019\u00e9largir, <a href=\"https:\/\/africacenter.org\/fr\/spotlight\/2026a-portee-menace-islamistes-militants-afrique\/\">Centre d&#8217;Etudes Strat\u00e9giques de l&#8217;Afrique<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Assaut conjoint contre le pouvoir au Mali: que se passe-t-il?, <a href=\"https:\/\/ici.radio-canada.ca\/nouvelle\/2251117\/mali-separatistes-alliance-islamistes-junte\">Radio Canada<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Au Mali, un \u00e9chec fran\u00e7ais, aussi, <a href=\"https:\/\/afriquexxi.info\/Au-Mali-un-echec-francais-aussi\">Afrique XXI<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Africa Forward Summit: From French influence to European partnership?, <a href=\"https:\/\/ecdpm.org\/work\/africa-forward-summit-french-influence-european-partnership\">ECDPM<\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"main-heading\" class=\"ssrcss-bh9yn6-Heading e10rt3ze0\" tabindex=\"-1\"><span role=\"text\">France seeks to move beyond colonial ties by meeting African leaders in Kenya, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cpqpernnx8xo\">BBC<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Afrique anglophone: le nouveau pari de la France, <a href=\"https:\/\/lesoleil.sn\/le-decodeur\/chronique\/afrique-anglophone-le-nouveau-pari-de-la-france-malick-ciss\/\">Le Soleil<\/a> (S\u00e9n\u00e9gal)<\/p>\n<p>France\u2019s Macron announces $27bn investment in Africa at Kenya summit, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2026\/5\/12\/frances-macron-announces-27bn-investment-in-africa-at-kenya-summit\">Al-Jazeera<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"article-headline__title h3 font-bold mb-24\">Macron to Africa: \u2018We are not the predators of the 21st century\u2019, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theafricareport.com\/418100\/macron-to-africa-we-are-not-the-predators-of-the-21st-century\/\">Africa Report<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ds-title\">Au sommet Africa Forward, le testament d\u2019Emmanuel Macron sur le continent, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lemonde.fr\/afrique\/article\/2026\/05\/12\/a-nairobi-l-operation-seduction-d-emmanuel-macron_6688294_3212.html\">Le Monde<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Burkina Faso, Niger, Mali. Des dictatures dans la plus pure tradition, Afrique XXI Sudan\u2019s Civil War Is Spreading to Chad. The World Should be Worried, WPR En Afrique, la port\u00e9e de la menace des islamistes militants ne cesse de s\u2019\u00e9largir, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/?p=3451\">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_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":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3451","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\/3451","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=3451"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3451\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3457,"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3451\/revisions\/3457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}