Security in Mali is not an issue between France and Mali, but between European countries and the Sahel, according to the French Foreign Minister, Jean-Yves Le Drian, who spoke on Tuesday 25 January at the request of MEPs on the European Parliament’s Committee on Foreign Affairs.
He was speaking in the aftermath of the coup in Burkina Faso and on the eve of the joint meeting with the foreign ministers of the G5 Sahel countries, convened on Wednesday 26 January by the head of European...