While Emmanuel Macron announced last Thursday the withdrawal of French troops from Mali, it emerges from these nine years of military commitment, a double feeling.
In the light of these nine years, it is first of all a feeling of pride that comes to me.
Serval then Barkhane fulfilled their missions perfectly.
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Called in in 2013 by the Malian authorities, French forces ensured that Mali neither collapsed nor became a sanctuary for Islamist terrorism.
For this, the French soldiers fought relentlessly the henchmen of al-Qaeda, Daesh or Ansarul Islam.
By air and on the ground, operations were linked to curb the freedom of action of these katibas, destroy their resources (explosives, arms caches, motorcycles) and neutralize their leaders, such as Abdelmalek Droukdel, head of al- Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (Aqmi) in June 2020 or Adnan Abou Walid al-Sahraoui, leader of the Islamic State in the Greater Sahara (EIGS) in August 2021.
To this end also, the French forces have…
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