It looked like a farewell dinner.
The informal meeting organized on Wednesday evening at the Élysée brought together around a table the main foreign players in the military intervention in Mali for a simple observation: the impossibility of continuing operations Barkhane and Takuba, the European mission brought together by the France.
At the Élysée, in addition to Emmanuel Macron, were seated the remaining representatives of the G5 (Mauritania, Niger and Chad), the countries of the Gulf of Guinea as well as the European states participating in Takuba.
Officially, the end of Barkhane was not fully endorsed before the start of the meeting.
But few doubted that the decision to withdraw would be announced at the end, ending nine years of French military presence in Mali on a constant of cruel failure, tactical no doubt but above all political.
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