What exit strategy? France's Sahel allies open to dialogue with insurgents
FRANCE24, 16 Feb 2021
How to stop the Sahel from becoming France's Afghanistan? A G5 summit's taking stock of a recent troop surge that's netted wins against Isis-affiliated radicals in the three borders area between Mail, Burkina Faso and Niger. But once again, it is the former colonial power that has led operations. Eight years after that the French first stepped in to prevent jihadists from marching on Bamako.
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