Sahel: Barkhane facing the challenges of 2021
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Operation Barkhane was launched in 2014. © AFP / Dominique Faget
By: Franck Alexandre
4 min
France will “very likely” reduce the size of its Barkhane force in the Sahel after “significant military successes” in 2020, French Minister of the Armed Forces Florence Parly said on January 3, 2021.
But after eight years of uninterrupted military presence in the Sahel, Paris, which, in recent days, has just lost five soldiers, finds itself faced with difficult choices, between the desire to reduce the wing and the imperative to win new victories against the armed terrorist groups.
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