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VIDEO. Operation Barkhane in the Sahel: for Macron "massively withdrawing men would be a mistake"

2021-02-16T17:10:12.789Z


The President of the Republic reaffirmed his will to fight militarily against terrorism during a G5 Sahel summit.


France does not intend to reduce "immediately" the strength of its anti-jihadist operation Barkhane in the Sahel, which currently mobilizes 5,100 soldiers, said President Emmanuel Macron on Tuesday at a press conference in Paris.

"No doubt significant changes will be made to our military system in the Sahel in due course but they will not take place immediately," he said on the sidelines of the G5 Sahel summit in N'Djamena (Chad).

The French president also called for the “beheading” of jihadist groups affiliated with Al-Qaeda which still constitute a threat in the Sahel, and urged the countries of the region to “take a political leap” and to return the state to abandoned territories .

One year after the Pau summit, "we have succeeded in obtaining real results in the area of ​​the three borders", between Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso, and the main target group, the Islamic State organization in the greater Sahara. (EIGS), "has lost its grip and suffers many losses," greeted Emmanuel Macron.

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Despite France's involvement in the area for eight years, hardly a day goes by without an armed attack, the explosion of an artisanal mine or acts of violence against civilians.

The bar of two million displaced persons was crossed in January.

Source: leparis

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