FOLAHANMI AINA|
FRANCE recently announced plans to close its military operation battling Islamist militants in the Sahel region of West Africa.
President Emmanuel Macron said the mission would be replaced by an “operation of support and cooperation with armies in countries that ask for it”. And as part of the “new framework” the French military’s presence in the Sahel region would be part of a military operation and international alliance, associating countries in the region with all its partners, focused solely on the fight against terrorism.
This new framework is being read as an attempt at placing ownership of the process at restoring stability to the affected states in the region. And Paris has made clear whatever is left of the French military’s presence in the region will be integrated into the broader European Union’s military task force called Takuba Task Force.
France’s military interventions were triggered nearly a
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