“If we withdraw from Mali”, “if the President decided to announce the end of Operation Barkhane”, “if we imagined a scenario in which we had to leave the Gao area”… These days, the French army’s top ...

The ambush, which involved a car bomb explosion followed by gunfire, took place two days after militants killed at least six ...

Over the past seven years, France’s Barkhane counterinsurgency operation in the Sahel has weathered terrorist attacks, flagging political support from its African allies, and growing popular protests ...

Relations between Paris and Bamako have become strained, as the two governments continue to clash on more and more issues. Mali’s prime minister has publicly accused France of turning its back on Mali ...