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Emmanuel Macron is hosting a dinner on Wednesday for the leaders of several West African countries in Paris, where he’ll discuss his pitch to shift the focus of European forces battling an insurgency from Mali to another nation.
The French president will be joined by the leaders of Chad, Mauritania and Niger, according to an official in his office, who
didn’t say if the leaders Mali and Burkina Faso would also be present.
Macron is expected to discuss his plans
to withdraw French forces from Mali, amid deteriorating ties with the local junta, a person familiar with his thinking said.
The following day in Brussels, European Union leaders are
set to discuss the
bloc’s relationship with Africa.