Posted on 02/02/2020 3:32:55 PM PST by Twotone
BAMAKO (Reuters) - 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.
The plan is to hire 10,000 new soldiers in the coming months to “allow our armed and security forces to be much more present in quantity and I hope in quality in areas where they were not,” Cisse said.
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.
It was also not clear how it would lure people into an army whose troops are frequently killed in attacks by Islamists.
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“jihadist groups”
The time is coming, fairly quickly, when these ‘groups’ will properly be named ‘muslim terrorists’.
Better screen those recruits real good.
Maybe best to hire only Christians.
Or hire mercenaries.
Or just take the Christians out and let the terrorist kill each other for free.
Obama’s f-ing war. Zero feks care about African sh*t. Our best soldiers we have made have been slaughtered in that sh*thole.
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