France will pull out up to half its 5,000 troops from Sahel -Macron

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PARIS, July 9 (Reuters) - France will be left with between 2,500 and 3,000 soldiers in West Africa"s Sahel region once it has completed a troop drawdown, President Emmanuel Macron said on Friday. Macron, who gave no time frame for completing the troop reduction, was speaking after a virtual summit with Sahel region leaders. France currently has a little over 5,000 soldiers fighting Islamist militants in the Sahel.

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