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French troops are taking part in operations against Islamists in northern Mali, Francois Hollande has confirmed.
“Mali is facing an assault by terrorist elements coming from the north whose brutality and fanaticism is known across the world,” the French president said. He said Mali’s existence as a state was under threat, and referred to the need to protect its own population and 6,000 French citizens living there. France ruled Mali as a colony until 1960.
The French President said the intervention complied with international law, and had been agreed with Malian President Dioncounda Traore. A state of emergency has been declared across the country.
Mr Traore used a televised by Giant Savings” href=”#”>address on Friday to call on Malians to unite to “free every inch” of the country.
He said he was to by Giant Savings” href=”#”>launch a “powerful and massive riposte against our enemies” after he “called for and obtained France’s air support within the framework of the international legality”.
French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said the aim of the operation was to stop Islamist militants advancing any further.
“We need to stop the terrorists’ breakthrough, otherwise the whole of Mali will fall into their hands threatening all of Africa, and even Europe,”
The UN had previously approved plans to send some 3,000 African troops to Mali to recapture the north if no political solution could be found, but that intervention was not expected to happen until September.
Late on Thursday, an emergency meeting of the UN Security Council called for the rapid deployment of an African-led force.
The EU also said it would support the rapid deployment of an African-led mission and speed up preparations for a military training mission
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04 Wednesday Apr 2012
With Mitt Romney now emerging as the Republican party’s man to take on Barack Obama in America’s Presidential elections, how are we to read and understand what is going on France, where the first round for who will be President will take place on April 22, with the decider in May.
France is in trouble – it has been in this state since 1974, and the current candidates for the top job do not show any indication that they know how they will tackle public debt which currently stands at 90 percent of GDP, with public spending currently standing at 56 per cent of GDP.
Both front-runners, the Socialist Francois Hollande and Nicolas Sarkozy say they will tax the rich 75 per cent, something this is hardly going to encourage entrepreneurship or just as importantly create any confidence in the bond markets, where one ratings agency has already downgraded France’s AAA status.
So, how will the new President, assuming that it will be Hollande, the polls certainly think so, approach France’s new debt burden – denial is not an option, nor is playing the anti-immigration card anymore.
A period of austerity with cuts to public spending, will need to be backed with a more flexible tax plan, at a time when France’s old enemy across the channel has just cut the top rate to 45 per cent, where does the future President think the rich will leave their country for?
None of this will be welcomed politically, which is why it is important that the cuts are managed at a slower pace than they are over here, otherwise France will find that it will bequeathing a future generation with far less than it currently enjoys.
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