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Africa-Press – Kenya. <\/strong><\/span>French President Emmanuel Macron reiterated on Thursday that Paris has no intention of returning to past policies of interfering in Africa.<\/b><\/p>\n

He arrived in Libreville on Wednesday at the start of a four-nation African tour aimed at resetting relations with the continent.<\/p>\n

\u201cI prefer to be very clear and explicit in meeting you today,\u201d he said in remarks to the French community, \u201cIn Gabon, as elsewhere, France is a neutral interlocutor, which speaks to everyone, and whose role is not to interfere in domestic political issues.”<\/p>\n

Macron visit to four central African countries comes at a time when France finds itself facing a wave of hostility among its former colonies in the Sahel, forcing it to withdraw its troops.<\/p>\n

Ahead of his visit, he said there would be a “noticeable reduction” in the French troop presence in Africa “in the coming months” and a greater focus on training and equipping allied countries’ forces.<\/p>\n

“I\u2019ve decided on a new strategy for all our military bases in Africa. And I have asked the defence minister and the chief of the defence staff to work with their counterparts to adapt our military arrangements,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Macron insisted that the reorganisation was “neither a withdrawal nor disengagement, but adapting an arrangement” with allies.<\/p>\n

Before leaving Gabon, he will attend a conference on preserving tropical forests, an initiative that he and Gabonese President Ali Bongo Ondimba unveiled at last year’s UN climate conference.<\/p>\n

Later Thursday, he will head to Angola, before travelling on Friday to the Republic of Congo and neighbouring Democratic Republic of Congo.<\/p>\n

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