Issued on: 16/05/2022 – 13:47 Around 40 people, many of them civilian volunteers with the army, have been killed in suspected jihadist attacks in Burkina Faso, local sources and security officials said on Monday. In the northern region of Sahel, around 25 people were killed in two assaults on Saturday, including 13 members of the
Source link. France has thousands of soldiers running throughout the Sahel area as part of an objective to combat violence by Islamist militant groups connected to al Qaeda and Islamic State.But it is thinking about withdrawing soldiers from Mali, where relations in between Paris and the junta in Bamako have deteriorated.The death of four civilians
Released on: 08/02/2022 – 08:26 Malis prime minister on Monday implicated France of having sought the partition of the west African nation throughout its military mission there, the latest flare-up in relations in between Paris and Bamako. In a 45-minute speech to diplomats gathered at his request, Choguel Kokalla Maiga denounced France, the previous colonial
While Paris was depending on the strengthening of the Takuba counter-terrorism force in the Sahel region to make up for the drawdown of soldiers from its former Operation Barkhane, Denmark revealed on Thursday that it would withdraw its soldiers from Mali at the request of the judgment junta. Does this mark the beginning of completion
