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2020-01-15 Africa North

France to send extra 220 troops to fight Islamist militants in Sahel

[Jpost] La Belle France will send an extra 220 soldiers to West Africa to fight Islamist Lions of Islam after agreeing to create a joint command structure with regional states to fight the growing insurgency in the area, President Emmanuel Macron said on Monday.

"We have no choice. We need results," Macron said after a summit with the leaders of Niger, Mali, Mauritania, Burkina Faso
...The country in west Africa that they put where Upper Volta used to be. Its capital is Oogadooga, or something like that. Its president is currently Blaise Compaoré, who took office in 1987 and will leave office feet first, one way or the other...
and Chad.La Belle France has about 4,500 troops already operating in the region.

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