out by another ex French Foreign legionnaire, the Lieutenant Moussa Traore.In fact during that turbulent period of African fighting to liberate themselves from European colonization, France would repeatedly use many ex Foreign legionnaires to carry out coups against elected presidents: On January 1st, 1966, Jean-Bedel Bokassa, an ex french foreign legionnaire, carried a coup against David Dacko, the first President of the Central African Republic. On January 3, 1966, Maurice Yameogo, the first President of the Republic of Upper Volta, now called Burkina Faso, was victim of a coup carried by Aboubacar Sangoule Lamizana, an ex French legionnaire who fought with french troops in Indonesia and Algeria against these countries independence. on 26 October 1972, Mathieu Kerekou who was a security guard to President Hubert Maga, the first President of the Republic of Benin, carried a coup against the president, after he attended French military schools from 1968 to 1970.In fact, during the last 50 years, a total of 67 coups happened in 26 countries in Africa, 16 of those countries are french ex-colonies, which means 61% of the coups happened in Francophone Africa.Number of Coups in Africa by countryEx French colonies Other African countriesCountry Number of coupCountrynumber of coupTogo1Egypte1Tunisia1Libye1Cote dIvoire1Equatorial Guinea1Madagascar1Guinea Bissau2Rwanda1Liberia2Algeria2Nigeria3Congo RDC2Ethiopia3Mali2Ouganda4Guinea Conakry2Soudan5SUB-TOTAL 113Congo3Tchad3Burundi4Central Africa4Niger4Mauritania4Burkina Faso5Comores5SUB-TOTAL 232TOTAL (1 + 2)45TOTAL22As these numbers demonstrate, France is quite desperate but active to keep a strong hold on his colonies what ever the cost, no matter what.In March 2008, former French President Jacques Chirac said:Without Africa, France will slide down into the rank of a third [world] powerChiracs predecessor Francois Mitterand already prophesied in 1957 that: Without Africa, France will have no history in the 21st centuryAt this very moment Im writing this article, 14 african countries are obliged by France, trough a colonial pact, to put 85% of their foreign reserve into France central bank under French minister of Finance control. Until now, 2014, Togo and about 13 other african countries still have to pay colonial debt to France. African leaders who refuse are killed or victim of coup. Those who obey are supported and rewarded by France with lavish lifestyle while their people endure extreme poverty, and desperation.Its such an evil system even denounced by the European Union, but France is not ready to move from that colonial system which puts about 500 billions dollars from Africa to its treasury year in year out.We often accuse African leaders of corruption and serving western nations interests instead, but there is a clear explanation for that behavior. They behave so because they are afraid the be killed or victim of a coup. They want a powerful nation to back them in case of aggression or trouble. But, contrary to a friendly nation protection, the western protection is often offered in exchange of these leaders renouncing to serve their own people or nations interests.African leaders would work in the interest of their people if they were not constantly stalked and bullied by colonial countries.In 1958, scared about the consequence of choosing independence from France, Leopold Sedar Senghor declared: The choice of the Senegalese people