[UPDATE] G5 Sahel Summit Feb. 2021

France’s President said that deployment of nearly 5,100 French soldiers in five West African countries was, thus far, France’s largest military operation. [UPDATE – Feb. 16 – 16:30Z] President E. Macron urges expanded anti-terror fight, government control in Sahel, and no ‘immediate’ reduction of France’s Sahel force   “Au Sahel, les résultats sont là. Nous, Européens, nous mobilisons plus largement. Nous, membres de la Coalition pour le Sahel, conjuguons tous nos efforts derrière une dynamique collective pour et avec les populations.” Macron Said [In the Sahel the results are there. We Europeans are mobilizing more widely. We, members of the…