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January 14, 2020

France to Send More Troops to West Africa Amid Rising Violence in Sahel
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France says it will send about 200 additional troops to West Africa,
even as many protesters in Mali and other West African nations are
calling on France to withdraw the more than 4,000 troops it has
stationed in the former French colonies. West African leaders are
warning of increasing violence in the Sahel region. This is Burkina Faso
President Roch Marc Christian Kaboré.

President Roch Marc Christian Kaboré: "2019 was a difficult year for the
Sahel in general and for the Lake Chad region, insofar that I would say
that the increase of attacks in the Sahel, the human and material
destruction that we are suffering and the unprecedented humanitarian
crisis we are experiencing in this zone."



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