PARIS (Reuters) - France will send an extra 220 soldiers to West Africa to fight Islamist militants after agreeing to create a joint command structure with regional states to fight the growing insurgency in the area, President Emmanuel Macron said on Monday.
“We have no choice. We need results,” Macron said after a summit with the leaders of Niger, Mali, Mauritania, Burkina Faso and Chad.
France has about 4,500 troops already operating in the region.
(This story corrects the headline to make it “Islamist” instead of “Islamic”.)
Reporting by John Irish; editing by Jonathan Oatis
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