By AFPMore by this AuthorAboard a US military aircraft,The United States will make a decision on the level of its presence in Africa, particularly in the Sahel region, in about two months, Washington's top military officer said Thursday. Washington has some 7,000 special forces on rotation in Africa carrying out joint operations with national forces against jihadists, particularly in Somalia. "There is no explicit timeline," the chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Mark Milley, told journalists. Milley was on a plane to Washington after a meeting in Paris with his French counterpart General Francois Lecointre. French officials were alarmed, with a presidency source saying the US made "irreplaceable" contributions to Sahel operations -- particularly in surveillance and air-to-air refuelling.

Source: Daily Nation January 17, 2020 08:03 UTC