FRENCH Title: Putsch au Niger: Macron annonce que l’ambassadeur de France est “pris en otage”

Caption: French President Macron says French Ambassador to Niger Itte and other diplomatic staff being held “hostage” and forced to eat military rations at French Embassy in Niamey, Niger: News Outlet Photo via BFMTV.

  • sim642@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    But your post kind of implies that the French embassador is “force fed” military rations? This is a very weird way to translate it.

    No, it doesn’t. You’re trying too hard.

    They’re forced to eat them (not fed!) because there’s nothing else. That’s it!