Operation Barkhane and Boko Haram: French Counterterrorism and Military Cooperation in the Sahel

Christopher Griffin

Small Wars and Insurgencies, 2016, vol. 27, issue 5, 896-913

Abstract: This article examines the current coalition campaign against Boko Haram in Nigeria in the context of French military cooperation with the Francophone countries involved. The French government is actively supporting and facilitating the offensive against Boko Haram through both structural and operational military cooperation with Chad, Niger, and Cameroon. The current effectiveness and operational state of the armies in those three countries is largely due to long-term French strategic thinking about its influence on the continent. Finally, France is also militarily active on the continent with 3000 soldiers deployed for Operation Barkhane. Barkhane, while primarily aimed at containing the threat of Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, is also designed, in cooperation with partner countries, to prevent a link-up between Boko Haram and the other terrorist groups in the Sahel.

Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1080/09592318.2016.1208283

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