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Macron announces French troop withdrawal from Mali

In a joint announcement from the Élysée Palace on Thursday, France and allied nations announced that they were withdrawing troops from Mali due to a breakdown in relations with the ruling junta after nine years of fighting a jihadist insurgency. Read FRANCE 24's live coverage of the day’s events as…

France 24

France poised to announce withdrawal of military forces from Mali

After months of diplomatic crisis the departure will mark an end to a fraught nine-year mission

The Guardian - UK

Barkhane, Takuba, Sabre: French and European military missions in the Sahel

France on Thursday announced the withdrawal of its military mission in Mali, Operation Barkhane, after nine years of battling jihadists in the region. At the request of Malian authorities, France launched an intervention in January 2013 to oust Islamists who had taken over much of the north.

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France set to leave Mali for neighbouring countries to continue fight against terrorism

Nine years after first intervening in Mali to fight jihadism, France is likely to remove troops to neighbouring Sahel states amid escalating tension between Bamako and Paris.

Radio France Internationale

The trouble with drought as an explanation for famine in the Horn and Sahel of Africa

In early February 2022, the World Food Programme announced that 13 million people in the Horn of Africa were facing severe hunger as drought gripped the region. Similar concerns have been raised for several countries in the West African Sahel this year.

The Conversation

As French forces kill 10 suspected islamists, Sahel instability persists

French counter-terrorism forces based in West Africa have killed ten suspected jihadists accused of involvement in a massacre of police officers in Burkina Faso last November.

Radio France Internationale

France kills 10 Islamist militants in Burkina Faso

An air strike by the French "Operation Barkhane" battling Islamist militants in the Sahel has killed 10 members of a terrorist group in Burkina Faso during the night of Feb. 7 and Feb. 8, France's chief of staff said in a statement on Thursday.

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Analysis-Leaving Mali would not be easy as French military feels the heat

France is considering withdrawing its troops from Mali, but adapting its strategy to prevent Islamist militancy spreading south may prove complex and contribute to uncertainty in the region.

Reuters

Mali's Prime Minister accuses France of seeking to partition the country

Prime Minister Choguel Kokalla Maïga has accused France of working to partition his country through French military involvement in the Sahel, in a hostile new challenge to European diplomats in Bamako.

Radio France Internationale

EXPLAINER: France in sticky situation amid crisis with Mali

France is facing its toughest challenge in Africa in years: What to do about thousands of French troops stationed in junta-led Mali, the core of a major international anti-terrorism operation in the increasingly restive Sahel region

The Independent UK

While the focus is on Ukraine, Russia’s presence in the Sahel is steadily growing

With Russian mercenaries invited to Mali as European forces withdraw, how worried should the west be about Russia’s increasing influence across Africa?

The Guardian - UK

After a fourth coup in West Africa, it's time to rethink international response

The latest coup in Burkina Faso is the fourth in Africa’s Sahel region in less than 18 months. The other three were carried out in August 2020 in Mali, in April 2021 in Chad, and Mali’s “coup within a coup” last May.

The Conversation

Security in the Sahel: Is the Takuba Task Force still welcome in Mali?

While Paris was counting on the strengthening of the Takuba counter-terrorism force in the Sahel region to compensate for the drawdown of soldiers from its former Operation Barkhane, Denmark announced on Thursday that it would withdraw its troops from Mali at the request of the ruling junta. Does this mark…

France 24

France says standoff with ‘out of control’ Mali junta untenable

Mali said it was "ruling nothing out" in regard to its relationship with France on Friday after France’s foreign minister said that a standoff with an “out of control” junta in Mali was untenable, and that Paris was discussing with partners how to adapt its operations to continue the fight…

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Radio France Internationale

France condemns Mali's 'irresponsible' expulsion of Danish troops

Mali's military regime has taken an "irresponsible" decision by expelling Danish special forces sent to help fight jihadist insurgents, French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said Thursday. Denmark said the country would withdraw its newly deployed contingent of 90 troops from Mali after repeated demands by the Sahel country's military…

Radio France Internationale

France, European allies urge Malian junta to allow Danish troops to stay

France and several European nations have urged Mali to allow newly arrived Danish special forces to remain in the Sahel country, but its transitional government insisted on an immediate withdrawal.

The Independent UK

EU, G5 countries meet amid turmoil in Mali, Burkina Faso

Officials from the European Union and five countries of the north African Sahel region are meeting as the bloc readies to impose sanctions on Mali and as political turmoil roils Burkina Faso

Reuters

Analysis-Burkina Faso coup a blow to France, as Sahel military mission unravels

The military coup in Burkina Faso deals another heavy blow to France's fading efforts to stabilise the Sahel region, where Islamist militants have grown in strength and people's attitudes towards former colonial masters have hardened.

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Reuters

France says committed to Sahel security ops, despite coups

An attempted coup in Burkina Faso and an earlier coup in Mali are no reason for France and its allies to end their security operation in the Sahel region against Islamist militants, French Defence Minister Florence Parly said in parliament on Tuesday.

The Conversation

Les djihadistes du Sahel ne gouvernent pas de la même manière: le contexte est déterminant

La région du Sahel, une zone composée de pays en grande partie semi-arides situés sous le Sahara, ne cesse de subir les attaques des insurgés djihadistes d’affiliations diverses.

France 24

Mali demands Denmark ‘immediately’ withdraw its special forces

Mali's military government on Monday called on Denmark to "immediately" withdraw its roughly 100 recently arrived special forces troops deployed in the troubled Sahel country.

France 24

Coup in Burkina Faso: What next after ouster of President Kaboré?

Saying they feel exposed in the face of an Islamist insurgency rampant across the Sahel region, soldiers in Burkina Faso have taken to national television to confirm the ousting of President Roch Marc Christian Kaboré. But what will a coup change in yet another poor, landlocked nation where radicals seem…

Radio France Internationale

Burkina Faso denies army takeover after military barracks gunfire

Gunfire broke out at several army barracks in Burkina Faso on Sunday, prompting the government to deny that the military had seized control of the notoriously volatile Sahel state.

Radio France Internationale

French soldier killed in attack on military base in northern Mali

A French soldier has been killed in a mortar attack on a military camp in Gao, northern Mali, the Elysée Palace announced Sunday. Brigadier Alexandre Martin had been serving in France’s Barkhane operation in the restive Sahel region.

France 24

French soldier killed in attack on military camp in northern Mali

A French soldier has died in Mali, the French defence ministry announced on Sunday, the latest loss coming as Paris ponders whether to stop providing military backup to the junta-run West African country.

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