Hollande gets the hump in Mali, but he’s happy about it! (VIDEO)

Published time: February 03, 2013 00:26
Edited time: February 03, 2013 04:35
France's President Francois Hollande (C) and France's Foreign Affairs Minister Laurent Fabius (L) stand as Mali's interim president Dioncounda Traore (R) speaks to a crowd at Independence Plaza in Bamako, Mali February 2, 2013.(Reuters / Joe Penney)
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French president Francois Hollande has been given a baby camel by government of Mali as token of gratitude for the French military helping rid the north of the country of Islamist rebels.

Hollande was also given a whip to master the animal. The President noted the symbolism of the gift and promised the French would continue to fight tyranny.

"Terrorism has been pushed back, it has been chased away, but it has not been defeated yet," stressing that France was not there to oppress the local population. "France will stay by your side as long as necessary, as long as it takes for Africans themselves… to replace us," he told a large crowd in the capital, Bamako, at a monument commemorating Mali's independence from France.

In three weeks of field operations which started on January 11, French and Malian troops have recaptured most of the territory held by Islamist extremists who took over a number of key cities in the north of the country last year.

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Sayo (unregistered) 04.02.2013 04:53

There aim are to spread terrorist across Africa as to invade it ."Terrorism has been pushed back, it has been chased away, but it has not been defeated.

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T (unregistered) 03.02.2013 15:23

For Malis sake rebels should probably back down and create political group or something, don't know if it's too late for that. 
Either way french is probably doing good at covering up in somalia rade waste. How can they deny half of the yearly salary that they pay to their other non captive soldiers, let alone the Intelligence officers that was captured in Somalia? The rebels there didn't even say to pay in money, but Camels, maybe they were afraid of Camel rebels, like the Kenyan allegation of Apes carrying weapons.

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Peter Jennings (unregistered) 03.02.2013 14:46

General De Gaulle will be turning in his grave with the antics of this NWO patsy.

They like to parade themselves as tough hero's and savours of the nation. In truth they are the most spineless, chickhen $h1t around. They get in power because most do not work more than a few hours a day and have plenty of time to grovel and connive with their fellow traitors. They work in the shadows because they are gutless and as soon as violence breaks out, they are there, at the life boat, pushing and shoving the kids and women out of the way for all their worth.

Vermin like this pick on the most vulnerable. This guy isn't a man and the French should chuck him back into the sea.

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