By: Hana Saada
ALGIERS– In his speech on the Elysée’s action plan in Africa, President Macron briefly tackled his country’s relations with Morocco. Regarding the tensions with Rabat, he said that “his country has nothing to do with what he called the “adventures” in reference to the Pegasus and Marocgate cases.
However, Emmanuel Macron has not cleared his Moroccan ally of the accusations made by the Forbidden Stories and Amnesty International that the Makhzen is behind the “eavesdropping” that targeted dozens of French personalities and journalists with the Zionist software Pegasus. According to the Spanish journalist Ignacio Cembrero, the French president thus confirms, “implicitly that it was indeed Morocco that spied on the French authorities with the Pegasus software.
Regarding the Sahel, after calling the Russian Wagner Group “life insurance for failed regimes in Africa”, Macron said he would not allow France to become “the ideal scapegoat” in Africa, in a speech ahead of a trip to the mainland as of Wednesday.
Macron also said he refused to be drawn into an outdated competition between powers for control of Africa.
As a reminder, President Macron will visit Gabon, Angola, the Republic of Congo and the Democratic Republic of Congo.
