Macron says 'hidden aims' of junta forced Mali pullout
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Macron says 'hidden aims' of junta forced Mali pullout
PARIS (AFP) - French President Emmanuel Macron on Thursday said the attitudes of Mali s ruling junta had forced France to pull out and denied that its almost decade-long deployment had ended in failure.
"We cannot remain militarily engaged alongside de-facto authorities whose strategy and hidden aims we do not share," Macron told reporters, adding he "completely" rejected the idea that France had failed in its former colony.
