A form of exhaustion gains "Barkhane".
For the first time, a poll indicates that public opinion no longer supports the French operation in the Sahel.
Since 2014, after Serval to prevent the surge of Islamist armed groups in Mali, the armies have been working in a theater the size of Europe to contain the jihadist threat, stabilize the region, and allow a return of state authority.
But progress is still fragile, for lack of a political solution.
The French are getting tired of it.
In an Ifop survey published by
Le Point,
32% of people questioned said they were “
rather not
” and 19% “
not at all
Favorable to the intervention.
Only 49% of those polled agree, against 73% in 2013 and 58% at the end of 2019. The survey was carried out on January 5 and 6, a few days after the two improvised explosive device attacks that claimed the life of five soldiers.
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