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Mali - French Military Intervention -Security co-operation or neo-colonialism?

While Mali is participating in the AFCON Soccer cup being held in South Africa, France sends her troops into Mali and bombs Northern Mali to prevent “the establishment of a terrorist state”. Mali is rich in a number of resources, including uranium. France now has 59 nuclear reactors, generating nearly 80% of its electricity, making it the world’s largest net electricity exporter. In 1999, the French parliament confirmed three objectives in relation to this newly found wealth, the first: security of supply.

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