Bamako 16 May (ANA) - New French President Emmanuel Macron will visit French troops based in Mali later this week, the AFP news agency is reporting. Mr Macron, who was inaugurated on Sunday, has already spoken on the telephone to two French soldiers wounded in Mali. France has a 3,000-strong force fighting against Islamist militants in five countries in the Sahel - Mali, Niger, Burkina Faso, Chad and Mauritania.(ANA)

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