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After the military coup and the withdrawal of French troops, Mali is sinking into chaos a little more every day. Armed terrorist groups are gradually occupying the positions held for years by the French Operation Barkhane. This military operation has been fighting transnational Islamist terror in the African Sahel region since 2014: 4,500 soldiers patrolled the countries of the so-called G5 Sahel, in the former French colonies of Mali, Burkina Faso, Chad, Mauritania and Niger. Our reporters accompanied the last convoy of the French army in Mali for ten days through the desert, 1,200 kilometers through sand and dust, constantly threatened by jihadist militias. The convoy was supposed to evacuate the last military equipment and materials to France. In Mali, the mercenaries of the Wagner Group, the secret private army of the Kremlin under Putin, remain as law enforcement officers with their own interests… #mali #military #france Video available on YouTube until 09/10/2025 Subscribe to the ARTE YouTube channel: / artede Follow us on social networks: Facebook: / arte.tv Twitter: / artede Instagram: / arte.tv