Our armies are in the spotlight, this July 14, 2020, by parading in the center of the capital. They are the only European forces to fight. More than 5,000 French soldiers are involved in Operation Barkhane, which has been seeking, since 2014, to eradicate the jihadist armed groups from the Sahel. They destabilize three former colonies of France, Mali, Niger, Burkina Faso. These three states represent an area greater than six times the French territory. Due to galloping demography, they now have more than sixty million inhabitants.
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The French war in the Sahel began in January 2013 with the intervention of special forces to save Bamako, threatened by a column of 4x4 jihadist vehicles descending along the Niger river. This action was necessary, if only to protect the French in Mali. Historically, it also appears as a moral requirement: by overthrowing the 2011 Kadhafian regime, France caused a
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