Military intervention in southern Sahel highlights risks of attacks on extractive projects in Niger, Chad, Algeria

Chadian president Idriss Déby has ordered troops to position themselves for incursions into southern Libya, at the request of French defence minister Jean-Yves Le Drian, local media reported on 22 December.

The moves comes within a week of the African Security Summit at which G5 member countries Chad, Niger, Mali, Mauritania, and Burkina Faso called on the United Nations and NATO to set up an international force to neutralise militants in Libya.

On 21 December, regional neighbour Algeria deployed 4,000 additional soldiers to its Libyan and Nigerien borders in an effort to prevent jihadists infiltrating its southeast borderlands.

Source:  janes