![]() The French Armed Forces Ministry has not yet confirmed the role of Barkhane forces in the operation, but said that between October 3 and 10, aircraft carried out 98 missions, including 26 supply/ISR sorties and 44 transport missions. Barkhane last year used C-130s in airborne operations in Mali’s Ménaka region near the Niger border.įrance maintains a military base near the airport in Niger’s capital Niamey airport and another at Madama in the north. Image: Force Conjointe G5 Sahel/FacebookĪn image released by the FCG5S appeared to show an airdrop from a French C-130 Hercules transport aircraft, although Niger’s air force also operates the type. Image: Force Conjointe G5 Sahel/Facebook An aircraft drops supplies to Niger troops attached to the G5 Sahel Joint Force during Operation Amane 2 between October 1 and 10, 2019. Niger troops attached to the G5 Sahel Joint Force receive supplies during Operation Amane 2 between October 1 and 10, 2019. A parachute drop of combat food rations for ground troops was also carried out. Aircraft from both forces provided transport and reconnaissance support. Image: Force Conjointe G5 Sahel/FacebookĬalibre Obscura identified the weapons as a FN FAL rifle and two Romanian PSL marksman rifles.Īir support during the 10-day operation was provided by the Niger Air Force and the France-led Operation Barkhane force. Weapons discovered after a search of a vehicle on October 4 by Niger troops attached to the G5 Sahel Joint Force during Operation Amane 2 between October 1 and 10, 2019. The following morning, a “suspicious” Toyota Hilux 4×4 vehicle “coming from Libya” with five people on board was “apprehended by a patrol” 3 km from a Joint Force Battalion security post.Ī search of the vehicle uncovered rifles with laser sights and ammunition, and the five men were detained. The weapons include a PK machine gun, an RPG-7 rocket propelled grenade launcher and rockets, various AK assault rifle variants and possibly an M1 rifle, according to weapons identification specialist Calibre Obscura. Image: Force Conjointe G5 Sahel/Facebookĭuring a patrol on October 3, troops “discovered a large cache of weapons in a cave,” and items recovered included “assault rifles, handguns, anti-tank rockets, grenades and several crates of small-calibre ammunition, as well as observation equipment.” A cave where a weapons cache was uncovered on October 3 by Niger troops attached to the G5 Sahel Joint Force during Operation Amane 2 between October 1 and 10, 2019. Madama is in the far north of Niger, near the borders with Chad and Libya. ![]() ![]() The counter-terrorism mission was carried out by soldiers from the Madama Battalion in Niger in the eastern zone of operations in the Niger-Chad border area between October 1 and 10, the force said in a release posted on Facebook on Thursday, October 17. The G5 Sahel Joint Force (FCG5S) said Nigerien troops had made a “major arms seizure” during a 10-day military operation in northern Niger. ![]()
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