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Afghanistan: what lessons for the Sahel?

In this image provided by the U.S. Air Force, evacuees from Afghanistan board the U.S. plane at Kabul airport, Aug. 24, 2021. AP - MSgt.

Donald R. Allen

By: Marie-France Chatin Follow

1 min

Twenty years after the decision to activate Article 5 of the Washington Treaty for the first time in its history, following the September 2001 attacks, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization left Afghanistan in August 2021 in dramatic circumstances.

The meaning of this hastily mounted mission continues to be questioned, as well as its result.

How could the first military power in the world be defeated by a guerrilla inspired by an Islam from another age?

The question was particularly felt in France, because of our presence in the Sahel which is not without raising fears of a comparable outcome. 

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Guests: 

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Serge Michailof,

former director of the World Bank and operations of the French Development Agency.

Associate researcher at IRIS.

“ 

Afghanistan: autopsy of a disaster.

What lessons for the Sahel?

 », Editions Gallimard.   

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Nicolas Normand,

former French Ambassador to Mali, Senegal and Congo.

Searcher.

“ 

The Big Book of Africa.

Chaos or emergence south of the Sahara 

”, Eyrolles editions. 

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