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Melissa Chemam with RFI

Europe failed to bolster democracy in Sahel, EU's top diplomat says

A French soldier with Operation Barkhane in 2015 in Mali, when the way forward was clearer. AFP - PHILIPPE DESMAZES

The EU's foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said Tuesday that 600 million euros spent training security personnel in the Sahel had "failed to bolster democracy". His comments follow recent coups in both Niger and Gabon.

At the European Parliament in Strasbourg the European Union's top diplomat, Josep Borrell, told MEPs that the millions spent in military training in the Sahel had "not helped armed forces support democratically elected governments".

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