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 The 11 main components of the pursuit of the colonization pact since 1950

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Colonisation, une histoire française

1 . The colonial debt for the "benefits" of France during colonizationNewly "independent" countries must pay for the infrastructure built by France in the country during colonization.


2 . Automatic confiscation of national reserves

African countries must deposit their national monetary reserves in France at the central bank. These fourteen countries are obliged to deposit 85% of their reserves in the French Treasury, which would leave them only 15% of liquidity and would oblige them to go into debt with France. France has held national reserves of fourteen African countries since 1961: Benin, Burkina Faso, Guinea-Bissau, Ivory Coast, Mali, Niger, Senegal, Togo, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Congo -Brazzaville, Guinea Equatorial and Gabon.

The monetary policy governing such a diverse grouping of countries is straightforward as it is managed by the French Treasury, without reference to central fiscal authorities like the WAEMU West African Economic and Monetary Union or CEMAC. Economic and Monetary Community of Central Africa. According to the terms of the agreement which was put in place by the central bank of the CFA (French Colonies of Africa), each Central Bank of each African country is obliged to keep at least 65% of its foreign exchange reserves in a " operations account” held at the French Treasury, as well as another 20% to cover financial liabilities. The obligation to centralize the foreign exchange reserves of the Bank of Central African States (BEAC) with the French Treasury changed in 2007 from 65% to 50% and was maintained at 65% for the Central Bank of Comoros.

The CFA central banks also impose a ceiling on the credit granted to each member country at the equivalent of 20% of that country's government revenue over the previous year. Even if the central banks: the BEAC: the Bank of Central African States and the BCEAO Central Bank of West African States have an overdraft facility with the French Treasury, the drafts on the overdraft facilities are subject to the consent of the French Treasury. The last word is that of the French Treasury which has invested the foreign reserves of African countries in its own name on the Paris Stock Exchange.

In short, more than 80% of the foreign exchange reserves of these African countries are deposited in the "operations accounts" controlled by the French Treasury. The two CFA banks are African in name, but do not have their own monetary policies. The countries themselves do not know, are not informed, to the extent of how much the foreign exchange reserve held by the French Treasury belongs to them as a group or individually.

The gains from the investment of these French Treasury funds are supposed to be added to the foreign exchange reserve, but there is no accounting transmitted to banks or countries, nor the details of these changes. “Only a select group of senior French Treasury officials know the amounts appearing in the “operations accounts” where these funds are invested; whether there is a profit on these investments; they are prohibited from disclosing this information to CFA banks or to the central banks of African states. ” writes Dr. Gary K. Busch

It is estimated that France manages nearly 500 billion African money in its treasury, and does nothing to shed some light on this dark side of the old empire. The purpose remains: African countries do not have access to this money.

France allows them access to only 15% of their money per year. If they need more, African countries must borrow, at commercial rates, from the 65% of their money held in the French Treasury

To make matters more tragic, France imposes a cap on the amount of money countries can borrow from the reserve. The ceiling is set at 20% of their public revenue for the previous year. If countries need to borrow more than 20% of their own money, France has a veto.

Former French President Jacques Chirac recently spoke about money from African countries in banks in France. He said: "We must be honest and recognize that a large part of the money in our banks comes precisely from the exploitation of the African continent".


3 . Right of priority over any raw or natural resource discovered in the country

France has priority in the purchase of all the natural resources of the land of its former colonies. It is only on its refusal that African countries are authorized to seek other partners.

4 . Priority to French interests and companies in public contracts and public constructions

In the awarding of public contracts, French companies must be considered first, and only then, foreign markets are considered. The fact that African countries might get a better financial deal elsewhere is not taken into account.

Consequently, in most of the former French colonies, all the biggest companies and economic players are in the hands of French expatriates. In Côte d'Ivoire, for example, French companies own and control all major public services – water, electricity, telephone, transport, ports and major banks. Ditto in trade, construction and agriculture.

Ultimately, as I wrote in a previous article, Africans now live on a continent owned by Europeans!


5 . Exclusive right to supply military equipment and train military officers of countries

Thanks to a sophisticated system of scholarships, subsidies, and the “defense agreements” attached to the colonial pact, Africans must send their senior officers for training in France or in French military infrastructures.

The situation on the continent is such that France has trained and nurtured hundreds, even thousands of traitors. They are dormant until needed, and activated when needed for a coup or for other purposes!


6 . Right for France to pre-deploy troops and intervene militarily in the country to defend its interests

Under the name "Defence Agreements" attached to the colonial pact. France has the right to intervene militarily in African countries, and also to station troops permanently in military bases and installations, entirely managed by the French.

French military bases in Africa are deployed in the following countries: Mali (they are currently being expelled by the transitional government of Mali), Niger, Chad, Djibouti, Horn of Africa, Senegal, Ivory Coast , Gulf of Guinea, Gabon, Central African Republic

When President Laurent Gbagbo of Côte d'Ivoire attempted to end French exploitation of the country, France staged a coup. During the long process of ousting Gbagbo from power, French tanks, helicopter gunships and special forces intervened directly in the conflict, shooting at civilians and killing many of them.

To add insult to injury, France estimates that the French business community then lost several million dollars in the scramble to leave Abidjan in 2006 (where the French army massacred 65 unarmed civilians and wounded another 1200.)

After the successful coup by France, and the transfer of power to Alassane Ouattara, France asked the Ouattara government to pay compensation to the French business community for losses during the civil war.

In fact, the Ouattara government paid them double what they said they had lost when they left.

7 . Obligation to make French the official language of the country and the language of education

Yes sir. You must speak French, the language of Molière! The French language and culture dissemination organization was created, called "Francophonie" which brings together with it several branches and affiliated organizations all controlled by the French Minister of Foreign Affairs.

As demonstrated in this article, if French is the only language you speak, you would have access to less than 4% of humanity's knowledge and ideas. It's very limiting.


8 . Obligation to use the money of colonial France the FCFA

This is the real cash cow for France, such an evil system, is denounced by the European Union, but France is not ready to do without this colonial system which offers it a cash flow of around 500 billion dollars from Africa per year.

During the introduction of the euro currency in Europe, other European countries discovered the French operating system. Many, especially the Nordic countries, were appalled and suggested France get rid of the system, but to no avail.

The CFA franc being aligned with the euro for the exchange, this causes the impoverishment of Africans by the robustness of the euro. La overvaluation of the CFA franc impoverishes African exporters deux times at least. First, Africans have become less competitive because of the overvalued FCFA lose significant shares of their foreign markets for the benefit of their global competitors. Second, Africans lose a lot of money when their export earnings are converted into euros


9 . Obligation to send France an annual report on the balance and reserves. Without the report, no money.

Be that as it may, the secretariat of the Central Banks of the former colonies, and the secretariat of the half-yearly meeting of the Ministers of Finance of the former colonies is provided by the Banque Centrale de France/Treasury.


10 . Waiver of entering into a military alliance with any other country, unless authorized by France

African countries in general are those with the fewest inter-state military alliances. Most countries only have military alliances with their ex-colonizers! (funny, but you can't do better!).

In cases where they would like another alliance, France will keep them from doing so.


11 . Obligation to ally with France in a situation of war or world crisis

More than a million African soldiers fought for the defeat of Nazism and Fascism during World War II.

Their contribution is often ignored or minimized, but when you think it took Germany just 6 weeks to defeat France in 1940, France knows that Africans could be useful in keeping the “Grandeur de la France” at home. 'coming.

There is something almost psychopathic in France's relationship with Africa.

First of all, France has been seriously addicted to plundering and exploiting Africa since the days of slavery. Then there is this complete lack of the creativity and imagination of the French elite to think beyond the past and tradition.

Finally, France has 2 institutions that are completely frozen in the past, inhabited by paranoid and psychopathic "senior officials" who spread the fear of the apocalypse if France were to change, and whose ideological reference comes still 19th century romanticism. They are: the Minister of Finance and Budget of France and the Minister of Foreign Affairs of France.

These two institutions are not only a threat to Africa, but to the French themselves.

It is up to us to liberate Africa, without asking permission, because I still cannot understand for example how 450 French soldiers in Ivory Coast could control a population of 20 million people?


The first reaction of people when they learn of the existence of the French colonial tax is often a question: “Until when”

For historical comparison, France made Haiti pay the modern equivalent of $21 billion from 1804 to 1947 (nearly a century and a half) for the losses caused to French slave traders following the abolition of slavery and the liberation of Haitian slaves.

African countries have been paying colonial tax for the last 50 years, so I think a century of payment might be too much.

Mawuna Note Koutonin Original article:http://www.siliconafrica.com/france-colonial-tax/


DO YOU KNOW that France is the 3rd world power for gold held in its vaults at the Bank of France (2436t of gold), Germany 2nd world economic power has 1800t of gold. More than 13,000 billion euros of liquidity belonging to Africans and coming from the CFA franc are currently kept in France. France places this money on the stock exchange and pockets the interest when they should be added to this reserve: African money. France would have bought its gold reserve with this money from the Africans. WHAT A SCAM!



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