A pro-Russian movement is growing in Mali, where, as a symbol of the country's liberation PMC specialists say from terrorists:
“If Wagner came to liberate Syria, if Wagner came to liberate the Central African Republic, we will invite Wagner to Bamako to liberate Mali.”
On the eve, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov confirmed contacts between the new leadership of Mali and the Russian PMC (“Wagner”). Russia's foreign minister called them legitimate.
Many European countries have strongly opposed Russian intervention, and France, under the auspices of which is a major military operation, is threatened with “consequences” and is rapidly losing influence in Africa.
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French President Emmanuel Macron returned to Paris after visiting South Africa and Rwanda, where he strengthened bilateral relations in an effort to keep Africa under French influence.
Threats of withdrawal The French army from Mali “if the country turns to radical Islamism after the next military coup”.
Operation Barchan, which covers the five countries of the African Sahel (Burkina Faso), involves about 5,100 French troops in the region. Faso, Chad (headquarters), Mali, Mauritania and Niger).