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Some of the people who marched on Thursday July 14 were until recently engaged in perilous military missions such as Operation Barchanin Mali. The French army is in the process of leaving the country and beginning a redeployment in Niger. The logistics transfer takes place under very high security.
On the French base in Niamey, Niger, next to the armored vehiclesnow stack thousands of containers. Dozens arrive every day. Inside, military equipment: armaments, spare parts and equipment to sustain an entire regiment. The containers arrive from the city of Gaoin Mali, located 450 km from Niamey. Lhe French army is in the process of closing its last base in the country there, in a very tense context.
Two to three road convoys depart from Gao for Niamey, and at least two cargo planes per day. “We have this challenge to take up to finish this for the exit of Mali, on August 17th. We will get there“, says Commander Thierry, head of the joint coordination center in Niamey. 300 legionnaires arrived from Nîmes (gard) will be the first to be deployed on the ground, north of Ouallam (Niger), to lend a hand to the Nigerien army in order to contain the jihadists who are launching attacks from Mali.
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