France To Deploy An Additional 600 Troops To Fight Terrorists In The Mali-Burkina Faso-Niger Tri-Border Area

France has pledged to boost the number of its troops deployed in Operation Barkhane- its counterterrorism mission in Africa’s Sahel region- to 5100 as per a communique released on 2nd February. The reinforcement will see an over 600 increase in soldiers deployed in the Sahel region that is battling various terror organizations linked to either...