Mali will increase the size of its army by about 50% in a recruitment drive this...
BAMAKO - Mali will increase the size of its army by about 50% in a recruitment drive this year aimed at uprooting jihadist groups, Prime Minister Boubou Cisse said on Wednesday.
He did not say how much the increase would cost or how the arid West African country would pay for it when military costs already take up a significant part of the budget. Former colonial power France intervened in 2013 to drive back militants who had seized northern Mali in 2012, but groups allied with al Qaeda and Islamic State have sprung back.
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