{"id":4408,"date":"2026-04-09T18:17:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T18:17:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/4408\/"},"modified":"2026-04-09T18:17:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T18:17:10","slug":"france-is-seeking-new-alliances-in-east-africa-as-colonial-ties-fray","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/4408\/","title":{"rendered":"France is Seeking New Alliances in East Africa as Colonial Ties Fray"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody___5jDr\" data-component=\"paragraph\">  Welcome to Next Africa, a daily newsletter on where the continent stands now \u2014 and where it\u2019s headed.   <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/account\/newsletters\/next-africa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">    Sign up here  <\/a>   to have it delivered to your email. In today\u2019s edition, we look at France\u2019s latest attempt to reset relations with Africa. And:<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody___5jDr\" data-component=\"paragraph\">After falling out with many of its former colonies in the west, France has turned to Kenya to help reset its ties with the continent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Welcome to Next Africa, a daily newsletter on where the continent stands now \u2014 and where it\u2019s headed.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4409,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[493,4106,91,4105,36,5,50,559,4107,3231,584],"class_list":{"0":"post-4408","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-france","8":"tag-africa","9":"tag-bonds","10":"tag-business","11":"tag-east-africa","12":"tag-emmanuel-macron","13":"tag-france","14":"tag-iran","15":"tag-kenya","16":"tag-nairobi","17":"tag-niger","18":"tag-war"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4408\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}