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Africa-Press – Angola. <\/strong><\/span>In a video unearthed after her accession to power, Giorgia Meloni, the current president of Italy\u2019s ministerial council, criticises France’s policy in Africa.<\/b><\/p>\n

As the realm of immediacy and spontaneity, the Internet is also a repository of archives that some would like to see disappear. Supporters of the current head of the Italian government were confronted with a video in which she described the fascist dictator Benito Mussolini as a \u201cgood politician\u201d in 1996, one of the many mistakes of her youth that she regrets.<\/p>\n

Another interview with Giorgia Meloni in January 2019 was dug out of the digital drawers. The community managers of the far-right party Fratelli d\u2019Italia posted an interview in which the Italian politician criticises, as the audience applauds, France\u2019s presence in Africa.<\/p>\n

On the Italian channel LA7, Meloni unfolds a CFA franc that she presents as \u201ccolonial currency\u201d designed to exploit \u201c14 African nations\u201d, including children in Burkina Faso who \u201cslip into tunnels\u201d to mine gold that \u201cends up largely in the French state\u2019s coffers\u201d.<\/p>\n

Re-posted online last Friday by the US far right, the video demonstrates the opportunism of the nationalist international. A diplomatic crisis emerged between Paris and Rome following the verbal ping-pong over the \u2018Ocean Viking\u2019 ship that was carrying illegal immigrants from Africa.<\/p>\n

In addition to being a cheap dig at Emmanuel Macron, Giorgia Meloni\u2019s compassion for the Burkinabe children is less of a gesture coming from an Afrophile humanity, but rather an attempt to demonstrate the effects of French policy on migratory vocations. Once again, the distress of certain Africans is used in European-European debates with the intention, in the end, to block the path of the very migrants they claim to pity.<\/p>\n

Anachronistic legacy<\/b><\/p>\n

In addition to ideological opportunism, the video demonstrates populists\u2019 unabashed use of \u2018alternative truths\u2019. Even in 2019, when the 50% deposit of the foreign exchange reserves of countries using CFA francs in a French Treasury account had not yet been abolished, there was no question of introducing the type of \u2018tax\u2019 that Meloni denounces. The French treasury never absorbed the sums deposited.<\/p>\n

The CFA, originally called the \u2018franc of Africa\u2019s French colonies\u2019, is in fact an anachronistic legacy of France\u2019s colonial past. However, this kind of outrage hardly helps the peaceful attempts at monetary transformation. As for the example of the mines whose wealth France mainly accrues, the content of this speech was not well-researched.<\/p>\n

Although gold exploitation certainly doesn\u2019t help Burkina Faso\u2019s GDP, the precious metal is mostly exported to Switzerland, India, Uganda, the UAE and Belgium. It is however not exported to France, which is the target of this viral video.<\/p>\n

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