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France in the Sahel: "It's a failure, Operation Barkhane could not stem the jihadist progression"

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A French soldier, member of Operation Barkhane, in Mali in 2015. © AFP / PHILIPPE DESMAZES

By: Esdras Ndikumana Follow

A collective of around forty associations and academics has just published a column in the newspaper

, which calls on President Emmanuel Macron to overhaul French policy in the Sahel.

A major issue for France because of its military and diplomatic investment for almost a decade but which has already shown its limits.

The anthropologist Jean-Pierre Olivier de Sardan, director of research emeritus at the National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS), one of the signatories, is the guest of RFI.

• Africa

• sahel

• Diplomacy

• Defense

• France

• Terrorism