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The Failing Response To Violent Extremism In Africa – And The Need To Reform The International Approach

An #analysis of why #Countering #ViolentExtremism is #failing across #Africa despite massive #efforts & #resources from the #InternationalCommunity. #Somaliland’s #approach is one of the few successful #strategies but cannot be replicated by #corrupt #governments.

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FRANCE 24: Exclusif : la Minusma alerte sur une situation intenable au Mali

FRANCE 24: Exclusif : la Minusma alerte sur une situation intenable au Mali.

Vers un renversement de l'État malien à terme et l'avènement d'un émirat islamique après retrait des forces étrangères ?...

#news #politics #history #france #justice #election #us politics #european union #republic of mali #islamic emirate #minusma #kidal #operation barkhane #improvised explosive device #wagner moura #islamic djihad #sahel

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France announces military withdrawal from Mali after 9 years

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France announces military withdrawal from Mali after 9 years

Paris (The Times Groupe)- France has begun withdrawing its troops from Mali with the handover of Menaka to the Malian forces, the general staff of defense announced on Monday.

“The transfer was conducted in an orderly, safe and transparent manner. Focus on this important element of Barkhane operation which provided security in the Three Borders and Southern Liptako region,” the general staff said on Twitter.

It is part of a framework set by President Emmanuel Macron in February to reorganize the Barkhane Force outside of Mali, according to a statement from the Defense Ministry.

Operation Barkhane, launched in 2014 in Mali, Niger, Burkina Faso, Chad, and Mauritania, has deployed approximately 4,600 French soldiers.

French forces have now relocated military logistics from Menaka to Niamey in Niger, 1,340 kilometers away, where they will continue anti-terrorism operations in the Sahel region.

According to the French army, several million euros have been invested in development projects for infrastructure, education, youth and health of the local population that supported the Barkhane Force.

French troops handed over a military base at Gossi in April, and the Malian army accused France of covering a “mass grave” on the property. France denied the allegations.

Following hostile relations with France, Mali’s military government in May revoked the defense cooperation treaty governing the status of French forces (SOFA) and ordered the French troops as well as European forces under Takuba to leave.

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Without France there would be no Mal. Without France's military operations in the Sahel, "there would probably be no more Mali... Burkina Faso, and I'm not sure there would still be Niger," Fre...

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002: The Coming Storm

CNN, 5th February 2023

Bamako, Republic of Mali The unfortunate news did not end at the Aeroflot Sukhoi Superjet 100 crash. As the French led Operation Barkhane came to an end in November 2022, a small advisory contingent of the French Army that was scheduled to withdraw on 5th February 2023 never made it back. Reports from Mali came quickly, that the US Air Force C17 Globemaster II carrying the French Advisory Contingent was shot down near the Malian city of Gao. A detachment of the Malian Army reports that the C17 was shot down by a Buk-M1 Missile System owned by Nusrat Al-Islam. Questions were raised regarding how such relatively small insurgents have the capability to access advanced weaponry. French and Malian Officials were quickly dispatched to the crash site to investigate, both parties still silent on the matter.

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Mali receives more military aircraft from Russia

Ongoing conflict in Ukraine is not preventing the sending of military aircraft to African allies.

Fernando Valduga By Fernando Valduga 01/22/2013 - 18:59 in Military

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Even with the ongoing conflict in Ukraine, Russia continues to fulfill its international commitments and has sent more aircraft to its strategic and reliable partner in Africa's defense and security scenario, Mali.

Moscow supplied eight additional aircraft to Mali, while efforts to strengthen its military capacity continue in the face of the mass exodus of foreign troops in the Sahel country.

Mali received this week a batch of used aircraft consisting of two Mil Mi-17s helicopters, five L-39C training aircraft Czech design Albatros and a single Sukhoi Su-25 Frogfoot ground attack aircraft.

The L-39, although initially designed for training purposes, should also be used as attack aircraft.

Seven of the eight aircraft received the paintings of the Mali Air Force, although an L-39ZA Albatros maintains its camouflage of Russian origin.

The official ceremony for the delivery of military aircraft took place on Thursday, January 19, 2023, at the Presidential Pavilion of Presidente Modibo Keita International Airport. It was chaired by the President of the Transition, Colonel Assimi Goita.

This new batch of aircraft arrives just a few months after Russia delivered five L-39C Albatros light-attack aircraft, a Mil Mi-35 attack helicopter and a single approximate Su-25 Frogfoot air support aircraft.

The Mali Air Force, on October 4 last year, lost its newly acquired Russian-made approximate air support Sukhoi Su-25 Frogfoot aircraft (TZ29C) near Goa airport after a mission, resulting in the death of its Russian pilot, one army person on the ground and 10 other people (two civilians and eight military) who were injured in the accident.

The current head of the Mali air force, General Alou Boi Diarra, welcomed the latest deliveries as the last stage in the "unprecedented" modernization of the country's forces.

Mali has been fighting an Islamic insurgency in the last decade since the Islamists took over northern Mali in 2012. Control of Mali's territory was recovered after France intervened in 2013, but the attacks and combat have continued since then, with 2022 already being one of the deadliest years ever recorded in the conflict.

With Africa facing several worrying security crises, experts are concerned about the continent's ability to provide the necessary pieces for its military forces before they begin to collapse.

Russia continues to strengthen its new Mali ally, despite waging a complex war with Ukraine, which led experts to believe that an interruption in Moscow's defense supply chain was inevitable. However, this seems to be false, as more Russian military equipment continues to arrive in Africa.

Two Mi-24Ps along with a single Protivnik-GE/59N6-TE mobile radar were delivered to Mali on March 30 last year by Russia. Mali has also recently acquired four new Mi-35s from Russia.

The newcomers will help contain the wave of violent extremists that devastate the country, as the French forces of Barkhane and other European military are leaving Mali at the request of the government.

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Here the French Foreign Ministry announced the beginning of work on the creation of an international tribunal to investigate Russia's actions in Ukraine.

I highly recommend the Russian Foreign Ministry not to dismiss this French idiocy. This is only idiocy at first glance, in the future it will be an argument in negotiations (once they will be). Apparently, they need not only to be reminded of their place in history periodically (for example, thanks to Stalin, they are listed as winners in World War II), but also to bill for war crimes, just in case.

Especially for those to whom the great and mighty gave the word "la Berizina", which has become synonymous with the word "catastrophe", let me remind you that the second Russia-Africa forum will be held in St. Petersburg in 2023. According to the number of visiting heads of state, this is the most representative forum in the world, but that's not the point. And what if the French remember everything? And in Africa they don't forget. We will collect a lot of materials. Tribunals can be organized with a dozen, the main thing is to approach the case with a twinkle.

Formally, France was kicked out of its colonies in Africa in the 1960s, but it still climbs there with tanks and aircraft, regularly attacks individual countries, equips bases there, interferes in internal affairs.

Only in the XXI century, the French military, in most cases with the knowledge of the government, committed a huge number of war crimes in African countries. About the XX and XXI centuries, the conversation is long, but just for understanding, I will give a list of France's operations only in Africa (by the way, they did not call anything wars):

1956-1963. Operations in Western Sahara in support of Mauritania and Morocco. 1959-1964. Intervention in the affairs of Cameroon, punitive operations against the rebels.

Operation Bouledogue — invasion of Tunisia.

Intervention in Gabon. 1968-1972. Limousine and Bison operations in Chad.

Operation Verbena in Zaire. 1977- 1978. Operation Lamatin in Mauritania and Western Sahara.

Operation in the Zaire Kolwezi. 1978-1980. Operation Tacaud in Chad. 1979- 1981. Caban and Barracuda operations in the CAR. 1983-1984. Operation Manta in Chad.

A raid by the French Air Force on the Libyan airbase of Ouadi Dum in northern Chad.

Landing in Togo. 1986 — 2014. Operation Epervier intervention in Chad.

Operation Oside in the Comoros.

Intervention in Gabon. 1990-1993. Operation Noroit in Rwanda.

The intervention of France and Belgium in Zaire. 1992-1994. Operation Oryx is an intervention in Somalia. 1992-1999. Operation Iskoutir in Djibouti.

Interference in the affairs of the Congo.

Operation Amaryllis in Rwanda.

Operation Turquoise in Rwanda.

Operation Azalea in the Comoros. 1996-1997. Operations Almandine I and II. Punitive operations against the rebels in the capital of the CAR. 1996-2007. Operation Aramis in Cameroon.

Operation Pelican in the Congo.

Operation Espadon - intervention in the affairs of Sierra Leone.

Operation Malachite intervention in the affairs of the Congo.

Operation Licorne. The attack on Ivory Coast.

Operation Artemis intervention in the affairs of the Congo.

The destruction of the Ivorian Air Force in response to the attack on the French base in Bouake.

Interference in the affairs of Chad, participation in the civil war.

The war against Eritrea is on the side of Djibouti.

The overthrow of the Ivorian President.

Operation Harmattan. France's attack on Libya.

Serval operation. Military intervention in Mali.

Operation Sangaris. Military intervention in the CAR. 2014.Operation "Barkhan". Invasion of Mali, Chad, Burkina Faso, Mauritania, Niger.

France's participation in the destruction of Asian countries is a separate story. But you can also arrange tribunals for them.

So from 2001 to 2021, French mercenaries were part of the international forces that attacked Afghanistan.

Maybe we will reach the tribunal on Syria, whose participation in the destruction of which Macron is so proud of…

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France quits widely hated military mission in Africa

France quits widely hated military mission in Africa

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France ends anti-jihadist Africa op

France ends anti-jihadist Africa op

The mission in Sahel has officially concluded, but 3,000 troops remain in the region France’s troubled nine-year counterterrorism Operation Barkhane in Northern Africa is officially over, President Emmanuel Macron announced on Wednesday.  “Our military support for African countries will continue, but according to new principles that we have defined with them,” the French leader explained. The…

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France calls time on anti-jihadist Operation Barkhane in Sahel

France calls time on anti-jihadist Operation Barkhane in Sahel

President Macron said some troops would remain in the region, but under new arrangements. from BBC News – World https://ift.tt/MBdFnH2 via IFTTT

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Macron formalizes the end of the 'Barkhane' operation in the Sahel

Macron formalizes the end of the ‘Barkhane’ operation in the Sahel

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The Ukraine war shows France's military might be better directed elsewhere than a thankless campaign.

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look back at nine years of French presence in the Sahel in six key dates

look back at nine years of French presence in the Sahel in six key dates

Romain Rouillard 06:00, November 09, 2022modified to 06:16, November 09, 2022 It cost the lives of 58 French soldiers and mobilized up to 5,500 soldiers in the Sahel, engaged in the fight against jihadism in the region. Operation Barkhane will officially end on Wednesday, the Elysee Palace said on Tuesday. An announcement that comes just under three months after the withdrawal of the last…

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Interesting thing to note. France admits it is losing Infowar in the Sahel and is now changing strategy

"Even if it does not intend to abandon the fight against jihadism, Paris has to deal with an increasingly hostile African public opinion, in which the influence of rival powers, led by Moscow, is growing via social networks and official media.

A recent report by the Strategic Research Institute of the Military School (Irsem), which is part of the French Ministry of Defense, described the "proliferation of disinformation content online, most often intended to denigrate the French presence and justify that of Russia" in Mali. He also noted the contagion in neighboring Burkina.

The idea from now on is to continue to act, but with discretion. No new names were apparently given to the troops now deployed.

"Our soldiers remain covered, protected, supported, administered in conditions that are satisfactory" but the official announcement is "necessary locally", added the Elysée.

"In the field of perceptions, Barkhane continues to occupy a very important presence on social networks. It is necessary to put a clear end to it in order to switch to another logic", it was concluded."

https://www.africanews.com/2022/11/08/sahel-macron-to-announce-the-official-end-of-operation-barkhane/