A small glimmer of hope for the Takuba task force whose future in Mali is compromised.

The French general staff announced on Tuesday that the European special forces of the Takuba group and the Malian armed forces had killed around thirty jihadists in early February in the Malian Liptako during a joint military operation.

"This is the first time that a Malian unit engaged with Takuba has obtained such an operational record", argues the staff.

This operation, carried out from February 1 to 6 in the so-called "three borders" area on the borders of Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger, also made it possible to seize "many equipment and components for the manufacture of improvised explosive devices". .

It testifies "to the effectiveness of the combat partnership between the Malian armed forces (FAMa) and TF Takuba", argued the staff.

Takuba in the hot seat

This announcement comes as the future of the Takuba task force, created in 2020 at the initiative of Paris and in which around ten European countries participate, is threatened.

Faced with a hostile junta which has just expelled its ambassador and demanded the departure of a Danish contingent recently deployed in Mali, Paris has given itself until mid-February to decide with its European partners on the future of their military presence in this country, where France has been fighting since 2013 at the cost of 53 soldiers killed.

This reflection could well lead to the departure from Mali of French troops and Takuba's special forces, which were the target of virulent criticism on Tuesday from Malian Prime Minister Choguel Kokalla Maïga, who accused this group of "dividing Mali" .

Takuba, "it's 'the sword', in Songhai (language) and Tamasheq, it's not a name that was taken by chance," he said.

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