G5 Sahel summit: 800 US military personnel are currently deployed in Sahel

#France and its allies in the #Sahel meet in #Chad on Monday to discuss the region's relentless #jihadist insurgency. Fighting in the vast semi-arid Sahel has raged since 2012, when jihadists first captured swathes of northern Mali. Despite thousands of foreign troops - including #US military personnel - and years of diplomacy, the conflict appears as intractable as ever.

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