Because, like most other things in countries, we've been overlooking everything else in the name of profits for a long, long time now. We're only just seeing the consequences of a system being turned away from being invested into, to make sure that it gives you the highest possible yield, all the time, as they claw bit by bit the underlying infrastructure and such that had been there for decades." It's good for business, so it's good for you! " has been the motto too long. Sad.

In fact France still controls the governments of the places they colonized before by the means of coups, always having France-friendly people in power. That way they can keep exploiting those places, or at least the ones that are worth it.