The eleven agreements say that the 14 countries are not authorized to have a military alliance with other countries and are also not authorized to buy military equipment in another European country without the authorization of France.
Some of the Francophone countries include Mauritania, Senegal, Mali, Guinea Ivory Coast, Burkina Faso, Benin Niger. Chad, Cameron, Central African Republic and DR Congo
The agreements are listed below:
1. The colonial debt to repay the benefits of colonisation
2. The automatic confiscation of national financial reserves
3. The right of first refusal on any raw or natural resource discovered in the country
4 . Priority to French interest and companies in public procurement and public tenders.
5. Exclusive right to provide military equipment and train military officers of the colonies.
6. The right for France to deploy troops and intervene militarily in the country to defend it’s interests
7. The obligation to make French the official language the country and the language for education
8. There is obligation to use the CFA franc (franc of the French colonies in Africa)
9. The obligation to send to France, an annual balance sheet and a report on the state of reserves. No report, no money.
10. Renounce any military alliance with other countries, unless authorized by France.
11. The obligation to ally with France in the event of war or a global crisis.
