To protest Colonel Assimi Goita’s second coup in late May, France suspended its operations with the Malian army. Friday night, she decided to repeal the measure. Cooperation between the two armies is restarting. Bamako has been informed of this.
as reported from Bamako, Serge Daniel
The Malian authorities say they were informed of the resumption of joint military operations between the two countries through diplomatic channels, long before the official statement was published.
A government member comments: “This is the culmination of fruitful consultations between our two countries”.
Recently, the President of the Transition, Colonel Assimi Goïta, received in Bamako a French delegation consisting in particular of Franck Paris, the African Adviser to the Élysée Palace, and Admiral Jean-Philippe Roland, Chief of Staff. By French President Emmanuel Macron.
If military cooperation between the two armies is resumed fairly quickly, it is also thanks to the intervention of the other G5 Sahel member states. Mali, in the fight against terrorism, occupies an important place and it was necessary to return to normalcy in order for joint military operations – which show results – to be resumed.
Several interviewed experts add that Bamako needed this resumption of joint operations but also Paris. According to our information, starting this week, Malian and French soldiers should start hunting together, on the ground, the jihadists.
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