In January, France, which no longer has strategic or economic interests in western Africa, responded to a request from Mali’s citizens and caretaker leaders to intervene to prevent Islamist rebels from Libya and Algeria from overrunning the country. Four months after France’s military operation successfully expelled occupying forces from northern Mali, most French troops and equipment are headed home.
1月，在西非地区已无战略和经济利益的法国响应了马里人民和看守领导人的要求，干预阻止了来自利比亚和阿尔及利亚的伊斯兰叛军入侵该国。在法军成功将占领军从马里北部驱除出境四个月后，大部分法国部队和装备已经调回国内。