Press Release: France Still Insists on Enslaving Africa
Press Release
France Still Insists on Enslaving Africa
(Translated)
On January 14 to 15, 2017, the African-French Summit convened in Bamako, capital city of Mali, and it was attended by 35 African heads of state and the head of colonial France, Francois Hollande. This is the twenty-seventh summit, and France is keen to hold it to assert its control over the African continent the rich, oppressed and looted. And in this context, we should remind all of the ugly face of France in Africa and the continued looting of the continent, somewhat resembling enslavement.
What many people do not know, even those interested in political affairs, is that France since the 1961 “independence” agreement, forces the countries that were subject to its colonization to pay huge sums for it. They consist of fourteen countries: Benin, Burkina Faso, Guinea Bissau, Ivory Coast, Mali, Niger, Senegal, Togo, Cameroon and the Central African Republic, Chad, Republic of Congo, Equatorial Guinea and Gabon. As this agreement imposes deposit of 85 per cent of its reserves of foreign currency in France’s Central Bank under the supervision of the French Minister for financial supervision, according to the report published by the American agency, Bloomberg, the returns benefiting France year after year are up to 500 billion francs per year.
It is no secret that when France gave the formal independence for the countries it colonized in Africa, it secured a network of influence through which it tightened control on its old colonies, and the architect of this network is Jacques Foccart, personal advisor of former French President Charles de Gaulle, nicknamed with Mr. Africa, at the Elysee Palace among the tasks of the network to provide assistance to people known for their full allegiance to France to get to power and the assassination and liquidation of all who objects and resists this domination.
It is sufficient to know that in the past fifty years: 67 military coup in 26 African countries took place, 61 per cent of which occurred in French speaking Africa, the open and hidden information confirms that France is behind them one way or another… Perhaps the most famous of these coups is the coup in Ivory Coast, when its President, Laurent Gbagbo tried to end France’s exploitation of his country, France intervened with tanks, aircraft and special forces… and when the president of Togo, Olympio tried to abandon the French franc and wanted to issue a special currency, a special squad of soldiers backed by France killed this elected president.
The same fate happened to the elected President of Mali when he decided to get rid of the French currency, he was the victim of a coup led by Moussa Traoré, a French Foreign Legion.
As regards to the extraction of wealth and its disposal, it is most egregious and reveals the colonial face, the enslaving one of France, for example, what it did in Central Africa, when Paris announced that it would freeze the uranium mining in Central Africa until the year 2032, after which the former president Francois Bozize, declared that he will seek the help of other foreign firms to extract the metals, this resulted in a coup to overthrow him.
This is the colonial criminal face of France to this day… France, which enjoys well-being as a result of looting of the bounties of Africa and the assassination and carrying out of coups leaders and starting civil wars there.
This fact was acknowledged by Francois Mitterrand, former French president himself in 1957 when he said: “Without the African continent, there will be no history of the French state in the twenty-first century.”
Jacques Chirac has confirmed this meaning half a century later in 2008, when he said: “Without the African continent, France will be in the third row of the world’s countries and we must be honest and admit that much of the money in our banks is coming precisely from the exploitation of the black continent”…
It’s the ugly colonization by a racist democratic system… it testifies against itself time and time again of its criminality, and a sufficient evidence for us is what was attributed to Francois Hollande in a new book that sparked a media and political uproar: “I was given permission to carry out four assassinations for the best interests of France..”
All the decent people in the world are still awaiting the liberation of Africa, this looted, oppressed giant, to flood its goodness to its people and the whole world… It is a continent that Allah (swt) has blessed with abundant and countless wealth and with a stunning and rich geography.
This liberalization will only be from an emerging international force, with a contrary ideology to the liberal capitalist democratic ideology… It is the force of the upcoming Islamic state, the righteous Khilafah (Caliphate) on the Method of Prophethood, Allah willing, that will reveal practically the largest humanitarian scandal in the robbery and slavery throughout history and will destroy the colonial shackles, one by one… Africa will be content then of a new bright political birth.
Ridha Bel Haj
Member of the Central Media Office of Hizb ut Tahrir
Friday, 22th Rabii’ II 1438 AH
Issue No: 1438 AH / 028
20/01/2017 CE