Senegalese PM Ousmane Sonko questions French military presence • FRANCE 24 English

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  • In tonight's edition, Ousmane Sonko slams the French military presence in Senegal, saying that the foreign military bases are incompatible with the country's sovereignty.
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КОМЕНТАРІ • 188

  • @YoungGiftedNBlack
    @YoungGiftedNBlack 20 днів тому +189

    If Senegal does not have military base in Paris, what makes France thinks it can have one in Dakar?

    • @ejeikwutheophilus7854
      @ejeikwutheophilus7854 20 днів тому

      Don't mind evil France

    • @ejeikwutheophilus7854
      @ejeikwutheophilus7854 20 днів тому +6

      My response to your post was removed by UA-cam

    • @ejeikwutheophilus7854
      @ejeikwutheophilus7854 20 днів тому +13

      They don't want me to call France what she truly is.

    • @DouglasK.
      @DouglasK. 20 днів тому +21

      Precisely. All western military bases across Africa must go.

    • @DouglasK.
      @DouglasK. 20 днів тому +25

      @@Daniel-dg9bo France is wealthy cause of Senegal and other African states hence the aid. You're free to go learn that.

  • @Sekou156
    @Sekou156 20 днів тому +129

    It's not about Russia. We just want our freedom and dignity

    • @jesselivermore2291
      @jesselivermore2291 20 днів тому

      we want to not give africa aid nor migrants, we good?

    • @embibelayele1729
      @embibelayele1729 19 днів тому +1

      Really?

    • @TruJ7777
      @TruJ7777 19 днів тому +6

      @@embibelayele1729 yes really beckyyyyy

    • @kwabenasakyi
      @kwabenasakyi 18 днів тому +7

      @@jesselivermore2291 okay then no Gold, Diamond, Cobalt and more minerals.

  • @bkay7781
    @bkay7781 20 днів тому +131

    There should be no foreign military bases in Africa...period

    • @fabianabongo6284
      @fabianabongo6284 20 днів тому

      Africans to decide their (security) partners for themselves without any coercion from Western countries.

    • @jonathansoko1085
      @jonathansoko1085 20 днів тому

      Are you against African military presences persecuting and terrorozing Africans in Africa? Because i can show you 1000 examples of it, right now

    • @Paul65_45
      @Paul65_45 20 днів тому +13

      ​@@jonathansoko1085 Are you African?

    • @ntsakojoelbaloyi7421
      @ntsakojoelbaloyi7421 20 днів тому

      ​@@Paul65_45his not just knows how to talk about things he doesn't know

    • @MountH212
      @MountH212 20 днів тому

      ​@@jonathansoko1085What is this neanderthal talking about?

  • @ibrimajatta2046
    @ibrimajatta2046 20 днів тому +27

    This not anti French sentiments this is a fight for neo colonialism ,freedom and sovereignty

  • @Discoverlondon101
    @Discoverlondon101 20 днів тому +55

    Get out. Africa don't have military based in France. Why should France have military based in senegal

    • @vladnickul
      @vladnickul 20 днів тому

      Do you know what the french army do in senegal? Or you just prefer to stay dumb?

  • @sofyanhadi318
    @sofyanhadi318 20 днів тому +53

    French has no respect to every african country 🤣🤣🤣

  • @MariAmmaSar
    @MariAmmaSar 20 днів тому +32

    Get Rid of the CFA Franc in Senegal. Make a new currency and peg it to the price of gold.

  • @greatsena
    @greatsena 19 днів тому +10

    Ousman Sonko is so right. Africa must rise against neo colonialism. You have our strong support here in Ghana. Ghana must follow suit and close all foreign military bases present on our sovereign land.

  • @liar-liar
    @liar-liar 20 днів тому +20

    That's a bold statement

  • @futuretechworld576
    @futuretechworld576 20 днів тому +17

    🎉 welcome to the new age long live the continent

  • @guedegba
    @guedegba 20 днів тому +12

    Using the expression anti-french sentiment is wholly disingenuous.
    Propagandist rather than journalist.

  • @robertluvisia
    @robertluvisia 18 днів тому +6

    France has the world's fourth largest gold reserves of 2,436 tons but doesn't have a single gold mine in the country.
    Mali does not have any gold reserves, but has many mines and produced 71.1 tonnes of gold in 2019!
    Where did France get all this gold?

    • @MaryJaneJones.
      @MaryJaneJones. 18 днів тому +2

      They will tell you that they worked for it, and so should you. 😂😂😂😂

    • @filsduzaire
      @filsduzaire 17 днів тому

      ​@@MaryJaneJones.😂😂😂😂

    • @user-bz7vt6gm6o
      @user-bz7vt6gm6o 13 днів тому

      Theft

  • @aadityasah6090
    @aadityasah6090 20 днів тому +14

    France should pay rent to Senegal government.

  • @ghtwghtw7197
    @ghtwghtw7197 20 днів тому +23

    Its over for france and the west in africa

    • @clementasampana4402
      @clementasampana4402 20 днів тому +1

      How about central Africa where almost all the country are French puppet countries?

    • @modoucamara6571
      @modoucamara6571 18 днів тому +1

      say it again ❤

  • @GabrielMotlhabane-og5by
    @GabrielMotlhabane-og5by 20 днів тому +15

    Best analysis ever in f 24 history and the host tried the Russian question and he just bypassed it easily.guiliver and the rest of f 24 should learn from this man and be inspired 👍

  • @gottimaranzano9409
    @gottimaranzano9409 20 днів тому +12

    A relationship between oppressed and an oppressor. How does that what work? We were doomed

  • @celiajames600
    @celiajames600 19 днів тому +4

    He is right. What is the purpose of these military bases? They seem to always be followed by instability.

  • @mctrjalloh6082
    @mctrjalloh6082 19 днів тому +3

    He was actually speaking as polical leader of his party, not as Prime Minister. He said it at the beginning of his speach.

  • @jeanclovisnzikibazanye7482
    @jeanclovisnzikibazanye7482 20 днів тому +7

    Free Africa

  • @hetty7891
    @hetty7891 19 днів тому +4

    Bravo Sonko👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

  • @akouafray8616
    @akouafray8616 19 днів тому +4

    In a peaceful place you keep your military is a sign that the country still belongs to you. It's time to give complete freedom and also give independence to New California.

  • @mr__elastic
    @mr__elastic 19 днів тому +6

    which African country have their base in Europe or America?

  • @NqozaNTB-bm7qj
    @NqozaNTB-bm7qj 18 днів тому +2

    Their presence makes African nations vulnerable to conflicts of not their doing but by mere alliance

  • @CaptainLawrence-oo7pj
    @CaptainLawrence-oo7pj 14 днів тому +3

    African youth's is wakening up let's go ✊✊✊✊

  • @omarmanneh1437
    @omarmanneh1437 20 днів тому +6

    Equality all we want period Africa should also have their bases in Europe, we can study and learn from each other.

  • @sysisysi5296
    @sysisysi5296 20 днів тому +5

    Time to go home. We don’t need any military presence from anywhere in Africa.

  • @IbrahimJalloh
    @IbrahimJalloh 20 днів тому +14

    Get them out Sonko...

  • @Jiulize
    @Jiulize 20 днів тому +6

    Oh my😂😅 what is very wrong about French-Africa relation is inequality and France trying to dominate Africans,this is even true for this channel 😂😅 I mean unlike other international news media that hire African journalists ,france 24 has white reporters all over Africa and they wonder why there is an anti-french sentiment 😅😅.

  • @globalismoblackman
    @globalismoblackman 19 днів тому +1

    Go bless 🙌 your legend sonko ✊️✊️👏👏👏👏👏💪💪. Epic solidarity to our West African Brothers. #FreedomForSenegal

  • @OmarBinOmar-ez5pz
    @OmarBinOmar-ez5pz 20 днів тому +2

    Great analysis ever

  • @jacobomollo7100
    @jacobomollo7100 18 днів тому +2

    All these useless military bases in our motherland will eventually be disbanded..enough with the intimidation. the US bases in Djibouti and Kenya should be next

  • @deffaly9056
    @deffaly9056 20 днів тому +3

    African Souverainety by force no foreign military in Africa 🚫⛔❌

  • @guevealbino5432
    @guevealbino5432 20 днів тому +6

    It's over for the French in Africa. Just leave 😊😊😊

  • @ao284
    @ao284 18 днів тому +1

    Guillaume is a very good analyst.

  • @samsanyang9252
    @samsanyang9252 20 днів тому +6

    We don’t need America & West military bases go home 😂

  • @hms493
    @hms493 20 днів тому +5

    It has started 🔥👍🏽

  • @OusmanKeita-in3nn
    @OusmanKeita-in3nn 20 днів тому +4

    French base has to go France which is not safe for them self's 😊

  • @sidahagarwal742
    @sidahagarwal742 20 днів тому +5

    😂😂😂😂😂 Russia is isolated

  • @sonofnok2153
    @sonofnok2153 19 днів тому

    Oh oh!

  • @desireco
    @desireco 20 днів тому +4

    France wants to fight Russia... get out of there...

  • @davidnanaoseiasibey1291
    @davidnanaoseiasibey1291 14 днів тому

    There is no foreign military base in Ghana , only joint military training

  • @abed7922
    @abed7922 19 днів тому +1

    The democracy has worked for Senegal but backfired on that rotten France. As French says” Bon debarras”

  • @vusumuzilouis3826
    @vusumuzilouis3826 20 днів тому +9

    Abahambe

  • @basfarissah8004
    @basfarissah8004 19 днів тому +2

    They have to leave by the end of 2024😂😂😂

  • @rossklatte7073
    @rossklatte7073 17 днів тому

    The 19 priority countries of French development policy received about €1 billion in French Official Development Assistance in 2021: the leading recipient was Senegal (€177 million), followed by Mali (€107 million), Burkina Faso (€100 million) and Niger (€92.4 million).
    How to be truly independent? Stop taking the money.

    • @rappakalja5295
      @rappakalja5295 17 днів тому

      All of those countries send more money to France than they receive. It's curious how you choose to neglect that, isn't it

  • @victorsamuel8708
    @victorsamuel8708 20 днів тому +2

    French out Russia In Africa a wave is sweeping in Africa to oust former colonial powers along with USA

    • @BC-mj7gj
      @BC-mj7gj 19 днів тому +1

      Say what you want that doesn’t change the fact. Keep your troops

  • @gorillamaniamnotatrollimju8408
    @gorillamaniamnotatrollimju8408 19 днів тому +3

    France GO Home

  • @proudamerican4613
    @proudamerican4613 19 днів тому +1

    France military or any foreign military should NOT be in any African country.

  • @rialkhalitobindia1905
    @rialkhalitobindia1905 16 днів тому

    African people are not against French people .They are against the French leaders.

  • @eddamm6195
    @eddamm6195 16 днів тому

    No need for foreign military base in AFRICA
    # AFRICA MUST UNITE NOW

  • @danielstewart8339
    @danielstewart8339 20 днів тому +11

    “No foreign influence”
    Also
    “Bows and welcomes Russians”

    • @karimdiop7305
      @karimdiop7305 20 днів тому +1

      Why don't you shut the hell up ! You liar !

    • @jonathansoko1085
      @jonathansoko1085 20 днів тому

      Its politics. This is about money.

    • @hbeee8793
      @hbeee8793 19 днів тому +4

      And they should have the RIGHT TO DO WHAT THEY PLEASE WITH THEIR COUNTRY. What right does France have to be imposing its desires on a sovereign state? Maybe Senegal does not want to deal with a genocide-supporting nation?

    • @danielstewart8339
      @danielstewart8339 19 днів тому

      @@hbeee8793 yea but those arent really the same thing are they.

  • @FaraDem-ll2em
    @FaraDem-ll2em 17 днів тому

    Great from sonko😮😮

  • @TheRamamedia
    @TheRamamedia 17 днів тому

    Nana Akuffo Addo of Ghana must watch and learn what having having a spine looks like

  • @user-bz7vt6gm6o
    @user-bz7vt6gm6o 13 днів тому +1

    Its about time , do you . We are third world countries , aren't you tired of scrambling for africa and act like you are helping . You want what we have been blessed with our minerals

  • @fordaiffa6022
    @fordaiffa6022 20 днів тому

    It’s all democratic
    Rights

  • @chrisdelmonte983
    @chrisdelmonte983 7 днів тому

    Franch is a first world country with the expense of other nation 😂 ..

  • @user-rh5ep7rq7s
    @user-rh5ep7rq7s 19 днів тому +3

    Senegalese forces should leave the Gambia too

  • @vladnickul
    @vladnickul 20 днів тому

    :)) They sure want to be like the rest of africa.

  • @rabihassan5945
    @rabihassan5945 20 днів тому

    No more ? jumping on the bed

  • @ErimiasEndale
    @ErimiasEndale 20 днів тому +2

    Yankees go home!!

  • @chessmaster2121
    @chessmaster2121 20 днів тому +2

    France 🤥😑🤬😡😠🤬😠😡😠🤬😠😡😠

  • @roymutombo4707
    @roymutombo4707 20 днів тому +1

    France out of Africa Russia and China welcome

  • @davidnanaoseiasibey1291
    @davidnanaoseiasibey1291 14 днів тому

    Welcome Russia 🇷🇺 my good people without colonial mentality

  • @thesixth2330
    @thesixth2330 20 днів тому

    What does France need from Senegal? Seriously, if Senegal disappeared from the map, what would happen to France? NOTHING>>> LMAO Look how well Congo is doing since the UN left... They are falling apart, don't worry when you BEG the West to come help, they just might...

    • @Freedom20255
      @Freedom20255 20 днів тому

      You are delusional for 400 years was has the west done? Is like you are still sleeping. Soon Africans will unite to help Congo. That said,”it because of the west that Congo is fighting war.” UN was there for decades to help by ”stealing resources.”

    • @bilbonbaggin6297
      @bilbonbaggin6297 20 днів тому

      😂 what a Numpty 😂

    • @hms493
      @hms493 20 днів тому

      Beg the West is the cause of all the problems in Africa

    • @hbeee8793
      @hbeee8793 19 днів тому

      You should figure out why FRANCE had been “helping” Senegal. You would be shocked 😂 good luck to you sir

    • @BC-mj7gj
      @BC-mj7gj 19 днів тому +1

      Poor you😂

  • @jonathansoko1085
    @jonathansoko1085 20 днів тому +3

    But they welcome Russia. This is simply about money, nothing else.

    • @TheJacob2030
      @TheJacob2030 20 днів тому +14

      Yes, About interest which is okay. countries should decide who they want to trade with.

    • @ko3053
      @ko3053 20 днів тому

      They 'Welcomed' YES - based on an Independent Sovereign Decision - NOT IMPOSED dictatorship of the West.
      Huge difference.

    • @awake3362
      @awake3362 20 днів тому

      I don't think you are an African.

    • @Noble570
      @Noble570 20 днів тому +11

      yes, it is all about interest which is okay. they should decide for themselves

    • @jonathansoko1085
      @jonathansoko1085 20 днів тому

      @@TheJacob2030 You dont understand. The public/media are trying to frame this as evil white french colonialism. They dont care, this is money related while the media wants to frame it as such

  • @thesixth2330
    @thesixth2330 20 днів тому +2

    Did they talk about how the Kingdom of Dahomey enslaved its fellow Africans and sold them to the Europeans even after France made slavery illegal? NO? I wonder why? Truth isn't so simple... I don't think slavers have property rights.

    • @Ws2237
      @Ws2237 20 днів тому

      So who bought the human beings who??

    • @sharpshenk3794
      @sharpshenk3794 20 днів тому +3

      This is actually an asinine argument. Slave trade was a universal trade amongst humans. Everyone partook in it at some point in history. How does that justify having military bases in sovereign countries?

    • @kingsolomon2304
      @kingsolomon2304 20 днів тому +2

      Cry more 😂😂. France out! Europe out! 😅 Thi biti

    • @thesixth2330
      @thesixth2330 20 днів тому

      @@sharpshenk3794 we are talking about the Kingdom of Dahomey getting stolen items back.

    • @thesixth2330
      @thesixth2330 20 днів тому

      @@sharpshenk3794 The Government of Senegal allowed those bases to be there. That's what happens in a democracy, different governments, have different positions.

  • @laughingbuddha1926
    @laughingbuddha1926 20 днів тому +3

    Another shame for your macron 😂😂😂😂.. west don’t have right to put there on other countries land … now it’s Senegal turn to kick French soldiers from there land ..

  • @Shaikhrahman1988
    @Shaikhrahman1988 13 днів тому

    France go out from Africa.