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| Mali: France to Close Three Military Bases in Northern Mali By Early 2022 |
| 2021-07-15 |
| [AllAfrica] At the end of a virtual G5 Sahel meeting on Friday, French President Emmanuel Macron announced that La Belle France would start closing three military bases in northern Mali by year-end, as the jihadist threat in the Sahel begins to shift south and expose more countries in the region to Islamist attacks. "Our enemies have abandoned their territorial ambitions in favour of spreading their threat not only across the Sahel, but across all of West Africa," Macron said after a virtual video summit on Friday with the leaders of the G5 Sahel - Mali, 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... , Chad, Mauritania and Niger. |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #6 France is gonna need those troops at home the way the latest lockdown is going. |
| Posted by: ed in texas 2021-07-15 13:12 |
| #5 Following the ghosts of America's ambitions. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2021-07-15 12:52 |
| #4 Just queried an old Frenchman I know and he pretty much confirmed Gert's #3. But it is the Burg. Mebe Gert is the Frenchman.....? |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2021-07-15 09:40 |
| #3 Something tells me that France is finally tired of supporting a Mali polity that is more interested in moving narcotics than fighting the Islamists. |
| Posted by: Gerthudion Whomoper3485 2021-07-15 09:35 |
| #2 Ref #1: What happened down in Haiti again, I seemed to have forgotten? Perhaps I was supposed to forget about it. I'll just move along and let the MSM provide me the approved updates. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2021-07-15 08:56 |
| #1 Just in time to send troops to Haiti to stabilize that unfortunate nation. Hahaha. |
| Posted by: Too Old To Work 2021-07-15 08:47 |