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  • End of over a decade of French operations against armed groups in the Sahel region.

  • Niger army Lieutenant Salim Ibrahim announces the completion of the French forces' disengagement process in the Sahel.

  • All three nations are combatting rebel violence that erupted in northern Mali in 2012 and later spread to Niger and Burkina Faso.
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