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After Eight Years of Mali Campaign, France Seeks Exit StrategyEight years after France sent troops to Mali to prevent jihadists from overrunning the country, it faces tough choices over how to keep pursuing Islamist extremists without becoming bogged down in a potentially unwinnable war.
Five French soldiers have been killed by roadside bombs in Mali over the past 10 days, bringing to 50 the number of troops killed across the Sahel since France launched a campaign to clear northern Mali of jihadists in January 2013.
“War in Mali: for how much longer?” the hard-left France Unbowed party queried on Monday.
France and several of its European allies have set up a new task force, Takuba in the Sahel.
But the G5 Sahel remains poorly-trained and underfunded — it is chronically short of air power, surveillance, and intelligence-gathering.