{"id":357170,"date":"2022-11-09T13:14:46","date_gmt":"2022-11-09T18:14:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/?p=357170"},"modified":"2022-11-24T20:06:48","modified_gmt":"2022-11-25T01:06:48","slug":"france-ends-anti-jihadist-africa-operation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/cs\/france-ends-anti-jihadist-africa-operation\/","title":{"rendered":"France ends anti-jihadist Africa operation"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #008080;\"><strong>RAEL&#8217;S COMMENT: <\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n<h5><strong><span style=\"color: #008080;\">There is no real end to colonialism as long as there is one French soldier in Africa. <\/span><\/strong><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008080;\"><strong><!--more--><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"article__summary summary \">\n<p>The mission in Sahel has officially concluded, but 3,000 troops remain in the region<\/p>\n<p>France\u2019s troubled nine-year counterterrorism Operation Barkhane in Northern Africa is officially over, President Emmanuel Macron announced on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur military support for African countries will continue, but according to new principles that we have defined with them,\u201d the French leader explained.<\/p>\n<p>The decision was the \u201cconsequence of what we have experienced\u201d in recent months, Macron said, addressing top generals and diplomats aboard a French helicopter carrier.<\/p>\n<p>While Macron\u2019s announcement implied a reconsideration of France\u2019s role in Africa, it does not change the facts on the ground. Some 3,000 French troops remain deployed in Niger, Chad, and Burkina Faso, tasked with fighting terrorist groups including al-Qaeda, the Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS\/ISIL), and others.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/news\/566237-france-ends-sahel-mali-counterterror\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/rael.maitreya\/posts\/pfbid02ifYAPoDdHWHVjChncrXMkzSvbq2w2PQLurqKNihtcnferxMfN81v4317ik3CZNcTl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RAEL&#8217;S COMMENT: There is no real end to colonialism as long as there is one French soldier in Africa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":131,"featured_media":357242,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5628],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-357170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-raels-comments"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/131"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=357170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357170\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/357242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=357170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=357170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=357170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}