July 2021: The Future of FRANCE in the Sahel

France takes over the presidency of the Security Council at a major
turning point in its foreign policy: it has announced it is scaling
down its long military presence in West Africa. Also this month:
France hosts the final Generation Equality Forum, in Paris. We talk
to French Deputy Permanent Representative Nathalie Broadhurst and a
French political scientist, Franck Petiteville, of Sciences Po
University, about what the change of the military mission means for
France, the Sahel region and President Macron's political future.
We also discuss France's commitment to gender equality at home and
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