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French President Emmanuel Macron said on Friday that France will close all military bases in the Sahel region in 2022 as part of its reconfiguration of the country's military involvement in Africa. Macron announced the military shutdown, including the reduction of troops and the closure of bases during a press conference with Nigerian President Mohamed Bazoum at the end of the G5 Sahel summit in Paris. The transition is necessary at the end of France's operation Barkhane in the Sahel, which Macron announced last month.…

We know more about the reorganization of the French military system in the Sahel. The G5 countries - Mali, Niger, Burkina Faso, Mauritania and Chad - met on Friday, July 9, via video conference. French President Emmanuel Macron attended the second sequence of this summit. One month after announcing the gradual end of Operation Barkhane, he presented the outlines of the new French military system in the…

The former South African president spent his first night behind bars. "Zuma fought against the law and the law won", launches the South African newspaper's website Sunday Times, by translating this form of a local proverb: "everything has an end".For its part, the information portal Mail & Guardian tells "how JZ was pressured into surrender" and reports "intense talks between the police chiefs, the ANC leadership in…

A G5 Sahel summit will take place on Friday, July 9, through video conferencing, the first since the announcement of the gradual end of Operation Barkhane. Emmanuel Macron will attend the meeting. He should take the opportunity to clarify the contours of this decoupling. The French president will attend this Elysee summit. But he will not be alone, he will have Mohamed Bazoum, the Nigerian president,…

The information was confirmed for RFI, the next G5 Sahel summit will take place on Friday, July 9 via video conference. Emmanuel Macron will attend the meeting. He will have Nigerian President Mohamed Bazoum by his side, who has been invited to the Élysée Palace. The French president should use this summit to specify the future French involvement in the region, one month after the announcement of the…

France has just classified the DRC in "red" due to an "active circulation of coronavirus" as well as "the presence of a disturbing variant" in the country. In the Democratic Republic of Congo, it is the circulation of the Delta variant that is of particular concern to the French authorities. This decision by France imposes…

Beninese visual artist Romuald Hazoumè is exhibiting his famous masks made of plastic jars until July 11 at the Quai Branly Museum in Paris. And his new installation "No Return" is the core of the exhibition "Ex Africa - African presences in art today". Interview with this self-taught Yoruba native who grew up in Porto-Novo in a Catholic family before conquering the art market with his voodoo-inspired…

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 DanielThe Malian authorities say they were…

France, of which more than 5,000 troops are stationed in the Sahel, will resume joint operations with the Malian Armed Forces, having suspended bilateral cooperation following a second coup in Mali in May, announced on Friday. the Armed Forces. "After consulting the Malian Transitional Authorities and the countries of the…

On Friday, July 2, 2021, the French Minister of Defense Florence Parly confirmed Allyhmoud ag Baye's death, aka Ikarey. Two weeks ago, the RFI announced the death of this cadre of Islamic State in Greater Sahara during a joint operation between the French and Nigerian armies and the European workforce Takouba in June in the Menaka region. Five other jihadists were neutralized and two relatives of Abu…