Abstract:
In February 2022, France's President Emmanuel Macron announced that French forces would be exiting
Mali, where they have been fighting violent extremists since 2013. France would be redeploying its troops in
neighbouring Niger, another former French colony beset with violent extremism, and the biggest supplier of
uranium that is fuelling France's nuclear power stations. However, increased militarisation in the Sahel region
has failed to stem attacks by extremist groups. In a 2019 article in Africa Insight, Cheryl Hendricks, then
Executive Director of the HSRC's Africa Institute of South Africa, and Tochukwu Omenma of the University of
Nigeria argued that a focus on military tactics has in fact been counter-productive to the AU's aim of 'silencing the guns' in this region. Recent developments in the region support this view.
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