The Prime Minister, Jean Castex, also canceled the trip he was to make to Jordan with the Minister of the Armed Forces Florence Parly and the government spokesperson Gabriel Attal to meet the soldiers based in this country.
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French President Emmanuel Macron has canceled the trip he was to make to Mali to meet the transitional president and celebrate Christmas with French troops, the Elysee Palace announced on Friday (December 17th). Reason given: the Covid-19. “This decision was taken for the sake of consistency between the measures announced at the national level and the president’s international agenda, and for the sake of not exposing our military system at a time of deteriorating health situation in metropolitan France”, explained the presidency.
The announcement of the cancellation was made at the end of a health defense council that met to examine new measures in the face of the lightning fifth wave of Covid-19 and the highly contagious Omicron variant.
The Prime Minister, Jean Castex, also canceled the trip he was to make to Jordan with the Minister of the Armed Forces Florence Parly and the government spokesperson Gabriel Attal to meet the soldiers based in this country.
Paris announced on Wednesday that Emmanuel Macron was to go to Bamako on Monday for a first meeting with Colonel Assimi Goïta, in a climate of high tension between Paris and the military junta in power since 2020, whose slowness to return power to civilians and the inclinations to have recourse to Russian mercenaries exasperated Paris.
At the end of the short stage in Bamako, the French president was to leave to celebrate the traditional Christmas with the troops Monday evening and Tuesday morning at the Gao base (northeast) with French soldiers deployed within the French anti-jihadist force Barkhane, undergoing restructuring.