{"id":198585,"date":"2022-11-10T11:41:49","date_gmt":"2022-11-10T03:41:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=198585"},"modified":"2022-11-10T11:41:50","modified_gmt":"2022-11-10T03:41:50","slug":"pres-macron-announces-official-end-of-french-military-operation-in-the-sahel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=198585","title":{"rendered":"Pres Macron announces official end of French military operation in the Sahel"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img src=\"https:\/\/img2.chinadaily.com.cn\/images\/202211\/10\/636c58eea3105ca157c12e75.jpeg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>PARIS, Nov 10 (NNN-Xinhua) &#8212; French President Emmanuel Macron announced on Wednesday the official end of the French military operation Barkhane in the Sahel region in Africa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;We do not intend to engage without a time limit,&#8221; Macron said in Toulon in the south of France.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, he added that military support from France to the African states in the Sahel region will continue in another form.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Since 2014, France has deployed around 5,100 troops to the G5 Sahel countries &#8212; Burkina Faso, Chad, Mali, Mauritania and Niger &#8212; under operation Barkhane. The goal was to help the G5 maintain control of their territories, and prevent the region from becoming a haven for Islamist groups.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>France will hold discussions with its African partners on the format of its military support and on the current missions of French military bases in the Sahel and West Africa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In February this year, Macron announced that France&#8217;s withdrawal of troops from Mali would take four to six months. Between 2,500 and 3,000 French soldiers were in the African country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He emphasized the important roles played by France and by Europe in the fight against terrorism in Africa. France &#8220;will continue this fight with neighboring countries of the Sahel region such as the Gulf of Guinea and Niger,&#8221; he said. &#8212; NNN-XINHUA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PARIS, Nov 10 (NNN-Xinhua) &#8212; French President Emmanuel Macron announced on Wednesday the official end of the French military operation Barkhane in the Sahel region in Africa. &#8220;We do not intend to engage without a time limit,&#8221; Macron said in Toulon in the south of France. However, he added that military support from France to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":198587,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[213,209],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198585"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=198585"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198585\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":198588,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198585\/revisions\/198588"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/198587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=198585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=198585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=198585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}