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Prior to the beginning of Operation Barkhane, 10 French troops had been killed in Mali as part of Operation Serval. [124] Since the launch of Operation Barkhane in August 2014, the French Ministère des Armées listed 38 servicemen were reported killed in Mali, 2 in Burkina Faso and one in Chad. [ 125 ]
The killing of several civilians in the village of Bounti in 2022, which was carried out by French fighter-jets, sparked one of Mali's most significant anti-France protests against French military intervention and Operation Barkhane. [27] [28] On 18 March 2022, the military government of Mali asked France to withdraw its troops "without delay".
Operation Serval (French: Opération Serval) was a French military operation in Mali. [20] The aim of the operation was to oust Islamic militants from the north of Mali, [21] who had begun a push into the center of Mali. [22] Operation Serval followed the United Nations Security Council Resolution 2085 of 20 December 2012 and an official ...
The French Government announced that the soldier "was mortally wounded during fighting against armed terrorists taking refuge in the Adrar of the Ifoghas, in northern Mali." [ 5 ] Colonel Thierry Burkhard told French Media that French paratroopers had been engaged with Terrorists throughout the day on several occasions.
Pages in category "French involvement in the Mali War" The following 10 pages are in this category, out of 10 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
In mid-2014, the French military in Mali ended its Operation Serval and transitioned to the broader regional counterterrorist effort, Operation Barkhane. Despite a ceasefire agreement signed on 19 February 2015 in Algiers , Algeria , and a peace accord in the capital on 15 April 2015, fighting continued.
Local officials in northern Mali accused France's army on Friday of killing six civilians in an airstrike, but French forces said they had hit Islamist militants. The incident, which occurred on ...
Though France and other European powers would come into contact with Malian traders on the Atlantic side of Western Africa, the first Frenchman to extensively document the riches present in Mali (and thus prod sentiment of French colonization) was the explorer René Caillé, who traveled inland from the Atlantic coast through the upper Niger River and reached Timbuktu in 1828. [5]