The West's hand in Africa coups d'état

The overthrow of civilian governments by the military, mostly in West Africa, is usually instigated by Western powers' interference in political regimes and imposition of foreign policies that breed militia in the oil, gas, gold and uranium-rich region. Paris, for instance, is known to support militias if the governments fail to meet their interests as was the case of Libya. In Mali, France has been backing a regime that citizens had rejected. Both ways, governments are overthrown, perennial political instability is normalised, and human rights violated.

What's my point here? French and other global north countries have had an intermittent interest in African countries such as Morocco, Algeria, Libya, Egypt, and by extension Mauritania, Mali, Niger, Chad and Sudan. Take for example the 2011 revelation by Muammar Gaddafi’s son Saif Al-Islam, when President Sarkozy of France supported the Libyan rebels fighting Tripoli from Benghazi, that Libya had supported Sarkozy’s 2007 election campaigns. Al-Islam demanded that their former colonial master repay Libya millions of dollars used to fund the campaigns.