Nine years after Paris dispatched soldiers to the West African nation to assist in ousting Islamic extremists from power, the last French army unit left Mali on Monday, according to a statement from the French military.
Six months after French President Emmanuel Macron announced his intention to remove his country's armed forces due to tensions with the ruling junta, the French military left Mali.
Mali's transitional administration permitted Russian mercenaries from the Wagner Group to deploy on its territory, which has increased tensions over the past year between Mali, its African neighbors, and the European Union.
The last French soldiers from the so-called Barkhane force to be stationed in Mali walked into neighboring Niger on Monday afternoon, according to the French military. They had a base in Gao, which is in northern Mali and has a high rate of Islamist violence.
In February, when Macron announced the departure, France has around 4,300 troops in the Sahel region, including 2,400 in Mali. using French
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