The Defense Minister, Jean-Yves Le Drian, announced that France will send 1,000 troops in Central Africa "for a brief period of about six months to reinforce the African force already present on site.

The minister said through Europe -1 that France will reinforce this African mission by about a thousand soldiers "He explained:" We will support and as we will  not be the first to enter as we did in Mali, and for a short period which will last about six months. "