By SYLVIE CORBET and SAM MEDNICK Associated Press PARIS (AP) — Leaders from five West African nations and France agreed Tuesday to step up the fight against Islamic extremists in the Sahel region by deploying a new battalion from Chad, maintaining a strong French military presence and gradually building up a European task force. The leaders of Mali, Burkina Faso, Chad, Niger and Mauritania, in a final statement from their two-day summit in N'Djamena, Chad, hailed progress over the past year that they said had made the implementation of a clear military strategy possible. French President Emmanuel Macron, European officials […]
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