French troops have repeatedly intervened in Chad, Gabon, Zaire, Central Africa, Togo, and Côte d’Ivoire to prop up and protect complacent, corrupt, undemocratic, and incompetent leaders, remove recalcitrant ones, or curb civil unrest. In Rwanda, France has yet to live down its perceived role in enabling the 1994 genocide.
非洲法语国家自此之后一直在为独立付出代价。法国军队一再干预乍得、加蓬、扎伊尔、中非共和国、多哥和科特迪瓦的内部事务，支持并保护自大、腐败、专制、无能的领导人，推翻不听指挥的领袖，或者平息内乱。在卢旺达，人们并没有忘记法国在默许1994年种族灭绝中所起的作用。