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TOPSHOTS-NIGER-MADAMA-LIBYA-BARKHANE
TOPSHOTS
French soldiers of the Barkhane operation attend a ceremony on January 1, 2015 in Madama near the border with Lybia. French Defence Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian paid a surprise visit to northern Niger on January 1, to visit a base being built to combat the growing flow of weapons and jihadists from neighbouring Libya. Le Drian travelled from Chad to Madama, a desert outpost about 100 kilometres from Libya, where he saw in the New Year with troops at a French base. Madama is situated on the route used by jihadists and arms smugglers in southern Libya to reach northern Mali and Niger. AFP PHOTO / DOMINIQUE FAGET
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Madama, NIGER |
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AFP / Mediafax Foto |
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DOMINIQUE FAGET |
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2 Ianuarie 2015 |
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