France seeks to shed policeman role at Africa meeting


  • World
  • Wednesday, 04 Dec 2013

PARIS (Reuters) - France will tell African leaders at a Paris summit on Friday it will no longer play policeman on the continent, even as it prepares to act in a new conflict in Central African Republic after its Mali intervention this year.

Held since 1975, the Africa-France summit was an opportunity for French and African officials to agree back-room deals to reward France for propping up sometimes corrupt regimes.

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