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French Prime Minister Gabriel Attal pays his first visit to the armed forces at Lyon Mont-Verdun air base 942. IMAGES
French PM Elisabeth Borne arrives in French Guiana to spend New Year's Eve with the armed forces fighting illegal gold mining in this overseas territory. This is the Prime Minister's first visit to this department of 300,000 inhabitants in the north-east of South America. IMAGES
French officers hand over the keys to a military base in the Malian city of Timbuktu, after a nearly nine-year deployment. The French flag was lowered and the Malian flag raised in its place on the base, where a force of about 150 soldiers have remained after Paris began withdrawing troops in 2013. IMAGES
Bamako (Mali), Jan 20 (EFE/EPA), (Camera: Hadama Diakite).- Dozens of protesters were dispersed by police with tear gas in Bamako during the protest against the French military presence in Mali. The country fell under French colonial rule in 1892 until its independence in 1960. France subsequently intervened in Mali in 2013 to fight the advance of jihadist forces and now has approximately 5,100 soldiers deployed throughout the Sahel. FOOTAGE OF THE PROTEST IN BAMAKO
In the barracks of the 1st regiment of parachute hussars of Tarbes, France's minister for the armed forces, Florence Parly, presides over a national tribute to the two French soldiers who were killed Saturday in Mali. IMAGES