As part of the restructuring of the Barkhane force's operations in the Sahel, a second military base was handed over and transferred to the Malian army on Saturday.
This is the Tessalit base, located in northern Mali, the French army announced on Tuesday.
The strong man of eastern Libya Khalifa Haftar ran for the presidential election in December, two days after a son of Muammar Gaddafi, two men with authoritarian leanings who, according to their detractors, risk torpedoing the country's passage to democracy.
The Ivorian economic capital Abidjan will acquire a metro, and construction work began at the end of August.
This project of more than one billion euros does not only make people happy: the populations who live on the passage of the future lines are evacuated, often without compensation.
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Editor-in-chief: Célia Caracena
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