The stupid diplomacy that I am ended up losing his Latin, sorry, his Bambara. I beg anyone who understands something to explain it to me, slowly, but above all in easy French. Thus, our pan-African Malian revolutionaries have shouted very loudly and very loudly that they have concrete proof that France is sending information and even weapons to the jihadists who are rampant in practically all of Mali. We said to ourselves: “patisanganan! France dared to do that! ” And we all pulled out our stools and sat down to see them, these proofs, ready to do battle with this France without heart or morals.
The Malians have said that it is at the United Nations that they will show their concrete proofs. We said, “Okay, you're right and anyway, if it happens at the United Nations, we will see them too because today, nothing is hidden ”. And the acting Prime Minister of Mali went to the United Nations General Assembly. This time it's chairs that we pulled to wedge ourselves well so as not to miss anything. We picked flowers and started whistling as much as we could. He repeated there that he has solid proof of what they said about France. We told him that's what we expected. He said that France is ruled by a junta. OK. Between junta, we recognize each other. He said ECOWAS is not nice. OK. He said President Ouattara is serving a third term. I do not see the connection but we have always waited. He said that the President of Niger is not Nigerien. Still off topic. We waited, waited for the proofs, they never came. Zaï-zaï-zaï-zaï as Joe Dassin would say. Moulo Beniye? Nzouélé nga? Mali's interim prime minister has said his evidence will be shown to the United Nations Security Council. This Security Council met the other day and the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Mali came. We too, we pulled armchairs this time. We even made tea. He repeated again that he has concrete evidence. OK. But he said he is waiting for the Security Council to convene a special session for him to show his evidence. For this session to be convened, it must be done by a member of this Council. Mali is not a member, but there are many friends including Russia and China, two countries which a priori would not miss any opportunity to trip up France in Africa and especially in Mali. But Mali wants France itself to call this session, to prove that it is innocent. Do you understand something about it?
It is as if someone accuses another of being a thief. The other says, “I didn’t steal anything. If you accuse me, show your proofs”, and the one who accuses him who says: “no, it is up to you to prove that you are not a thief ”. And I hear people saying that if France refuses to convene this session, that is proof that it is really guilty.
Tchè, don't throw our face on the ground. If you have proof, show it, we'll leave here. If you don't have one, say so and leave. Because in this case, Mali can show its evidence everywhere and if it is solid, no one will doubt it. He can show them at a press conference organized in Mali or anywhere in the world, he can send them to all the states of ECOWAS, the African Union or the UN. The Acting Prime Minister was on the podium of the United Nations General Assembly. Was there a better platform to show his proofs? Even if he had been prevented from doing so for some reason, he had plenty of time, being in New York, to invite all the press of the world who were also in New York and even all the representatives of the States of the world and show them his proofs. Even better, the representative of Mali found himself before the Security Council a few days ago. What prevented him from showing his famous proofs?
All this reminds me of a certain "concrete file" that our famous Ben Soumahoro had promised to exhibit and that we also waited, waited for and he never came zaï-zaï-zaï-zaï.
By Venance Konan
*This article has been translated from French into English by Marcus Boni Teiga
