which sovereignty? They expelled France to embrace the toes of putin through wagner's afrika korps (and that brought some problem in the country that an ex russian propagandist is compiling for La Haye. Problems like: increase of civilian suicidal rate by bullet in the back and self made rape)
Russian Central Africa talking about sovereignty. Their leaders are making all the same mistakes their ancestors did in trusting an imperialistic power and it's going to end the exactly the same way.
I mean when choosing between two imperialist powers choosing the weaker one does increase your independence, and between Russia and France France probably has more clout in Central Africa.
Honestly, was France acting imperialistic in any of its former colonies? I never heard anything bad coming from France's "allies", except for that one island that still is under direct french control.