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Since 2019, more than 600 unlawful killings have been committed by security forces in Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger during counterterrorism operations, according to Human Rights Watch. Frenchman Barkhane has also been accused of possible violations of international humanitarian and human rights law, after an airstrike in Mali in January killed 22 people, including 19 civilians, according to a report from the maintenance mission. of the peace of the United Nations in Mali.
limits to what can be achieved militarily and without political stability in the Sahel, the jihadists have the advantage.

“We do not have an example of a great victory in the phone number library counterinsurgency, and it is difficult to achieve that in the current environment, because for an insurgency to win, it just needs to stay alive,” he said. said Vjatseslav Senin, main national representative of the 70 Estonian soldiers fighting alongside the French in Barkhane.

Some of those living in the Sahel fear the hard-won gains will collapse too quickly.

Ali Touré, a Malian working in the French military base in Gao warned that “if the French army leaves Mali, the jihadists will enter within two weeks and destroy the country”.European summer in jeopardy as France warns against Spain and Portugal


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