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Burkina Faso broke off diplomatic relations with France and Paris called the move hostile; France withdrew its diplomats. A French intelligence officer was sentenced to twenty years in Bamako for offences against state security, a charge Paris rejects. Niger's leadership publicly blamed France for the jihadist assault on Niamey airport, and France advised its nationals to leave Mali.
Each card below is one coalition with its own frame on the same contested phenomenon.
Weekly attributed-headline count per narrative. Visual asymmetry is signal: some coalitions dominate the vocabulary, others stay sporadic.
Loaded vocabulary per coalition and recent headlines under each frame.
Severing relations, expelling diplomats and prosecuting intelligence officers close a colonial-era arrangement in which the former ruler kept bases, currency influence and a veto on security policy long after formal independence.
Per-week distribution of events on this friction node. Click a bar to see that week's top events.
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Countries directly involved in these tensions, or whose own outlets cover them.
Jailing a diplomat for twenty years, blaming Paris for jihadist attacks and cutting the last diplomatic channels remove partners and aid at the moment the security situation is deteriorating fastest -- and the sovereignty gained is largely rhetorical.
