The United States will renew its military assistance to French forces in the Sahel region of Africa but will require Paris to pay Washington for the cost of any future aid, US defense officials said on Thursday.(…)
But with President Barack Obama‘s administration now focused on a major air war against the Islamic State group in Syria and Iraq, the United States has told France it will have to foot the bill for future US military help in the Sahel region, two US officials told AFP.