The government of Mali and the president of Burkina Faso, two countries where Barkhane operates, expressed their solidarity with France on Tuesday after the death of thirteen French soldiers of the anti-jihadist operation in the accidental collision of two helicopters.
« Mali is on the side of France in this ordeal that is burying our two armies, » the spokesman for the Malian government and communication minister Yaya Sangar said on social media.
In a message to French President Emmanuel Macron posted on Twitter, the Burkinabè President Roch Marc Christian Kaboré « salutes (the) memory » of the missing soldiers and « sends (his) sincere condolences to their families as well as to the entire French people ».
Mali and Burkina Faso are plagued by jihadist violence and Barkhane fights alongside their national armies.
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