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France: Cost of military action in Africa

01 March 1997

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According to the Defence Ministry military action in Africa cost France well over Ffr 1 billion ($180 million) last year or more than 20 per cent of the money which the French laid out for foreign operations. The interventions in the Central African Republic to quell a series of army mutinies and operations in Chad to help the latter revamp its armed forces cost a total of Ffr 985 million. In all 2,590 French soldiers served in operations in the two countries last year.

In addition France supervised a truce between Eritrea and Yemen after it had mediated their dispute over islands in the Red Sea. Acting for the UN, France deployed warships and reconnaissance aircraft around the disputed islands. The outlay for Africa compared with a total of Ffr 4.1 billion expenditure on all of France's overseas operations, a rise of 23 per cent on the 1995. Two thirds of the total went towards operations in former Yugoslavia. Altogether 13,600 French soldiers served abroad under the UN or French flag last year

Jane's Defence Weekly, 2.4.97.

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