French President Emmanuel Macron announced that France was completing its mission to combat jihadists in Africa. Macron said that a new strategy will be developed with African partners.
“I decided, in coordination with our partners, to officially announce today about the end of the rationhane operation,-said the president, speaking to the highest generals and diplomats on board the helicopter carrier of the Mediterranean naval base in Toulon, he is quoted by Agence France-Presse .
This step has become a “consequence of what we have experienced” in recent months, and the new strategy will be developed over the next six months, added Macron.
France withdrew troops from Mali this year amid tense relations with the military rulers of the country. About 3 thousand French soldiers remain in Burkina-Faso, Chade and Niger. There are no closest plans to reduce the number, reports AFP.
Operation “Barkhan” – the operation of French aircraft in Mali, Chad, Burkina -Faso, Mauritania and Niger (G5 Sahel Group) against Islamist terrorist groups in these countries.