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Operation Takuba is running late. 2021 rather than current 2020

(B2) The establishment of the Takuba force will not take place this year, as planned, but next year

European contributions have been delayed. Only in fact is the participation of one state confirmed today: the Estonians. For the others, we will have to wait. The French Minister for the Armed Forces acknowledged this reluctantly, even if she wants to be optimistic. " From July, the deployment of the mission will begin with Estonian and French soldiers to gradually increase in power until the beginning of the year 2021, when we expect Czech and Swedish soldiers, and maybe, maybe Italian [soldiers] said Florence Parly, before the French Senate on June 18.

« Their mission will be to complete the tactical training of the local armed forces and to accompany them in combat, in the Liptako. Initially, they will act from Gao and Ménaka. These detachments, from the special forces, will be placed under the French command of Operation Barkhane.

(NGV)

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Nicolas Gros Verheyde

Chief editor of the B2 site. Graduated in European law from the University of Paris I Pantheon Sorbonne and listener to the 65th session of the IHEDN (Institut des Hautes Etudes de la Défense Nationale. Journalist since 1989, founded B2 - Bruxelles2 in 2008. EU/NATO correspondent in Brussels for Sud-Ouest (previously West-France and France-Soir).

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