Part of the Central African Republic Civil War (2012–present)
French troops positioned in Bangui on 22 December 2013.
Date
5 December 2013 – 30 October 2016 (2 years, 10 months, 3 weeks and 6 days)
Location
Central African Republic
Result
Operation success [citation needed]
France claim to have succeeded in its mission to stop fighting in C.A.R.
Some 350 French soldiers will remain in the country to assist MINUSCA
Belligerents
France
Séléka
Anti-balaka
Commanders and leaders
François Hollande
Jean-Yves Le Drian
Commandant:
General Francisco Soriano (5 December 2013 - 17 June 2014)
Éric Bellot des Minières (17 June 2014 - 29 March 2015)
Brig. General Pierre Gillet (29 March 2015 - 21 September 2015)[1]
Col. Nicolas Guisse (21 September 2015 - 23 February 2016)
Col. François Beaucournu (23 February 2016 - 20 June 2016)
Col. Maxime Do Tran (20 June 2016 - 31 October 2016)
Unknown
Strength
2,000 men[2] (up from an initial 1,600)[3]
Unknown
Casualties and losses
3 killed
Unknown
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Central African Republic Civil War
Timeline
2013
1st Bangui
Operation Sangaris
PK5 District
2014
Bossemptélé
2016
Escape from Bangui
2017
Bangassou
1st Alindao
2018
Batangafo
Bakouma
2nd Alindao
2019
Bambari
Ouham-Pendé killings
2020
N'Délé
2021
Bangui
Bongboto
Matchika
Boyo
2022
Aïgbado
Nzacko
March 2022 attacks
Gadzi
2023
Chimbolo
Map of forces deployed in C.A.R. in 2014
Operation Sangaris was a military intervention of the French military in the Central African Republic, from late 2013 till 2016. It was the seventh French military intervention there since the independence of the country in 1960.[4] On 30 October 2016, France announced it officially ended Operation Sangaris.[5]
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Nations led MINUSCA, while the French peacekeeping mission was known as OperationSangaris. Much of the tension is over religious identity between Muslim Séléka...
December 2018. Retrieved 12 December 2018. "RCA: violent accrochage entre Sangaris et des rebelles à Boguila". Radio France Internationale (in French). Archived...
offensives in Algeria launched by General Maurice Challe including Operation Oranie and Operation Jumelles. During the Algerian War of Independence (1954–1962)...
been internally displaced. In December 2013, peacekeeping missions OperationSangaris by France and MISCA by the African Union were mounted. On 20 January...
north of Yaloke burning many homes. 5 December: French forces started operationSangaris Anti-balaka attacked Bangui. Fleeing residents create IDP camp at...
African Union force of 6,000 personnel was accompanied by the French OperationSangaris. In 2017, Central African Republic signed the UN treaty on the Prohibition...
McSherry, J. Patrice (2011). "Chapter 5: "Industrial repression" and Operation Condor in Latin America". In Esparza, Marcia; Henry R. Huttenbach; Daniel...
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Militarily intervened in Mali (Operation Serval), in the Central African Republic (OperationSangaris) and in Iraq and Syria (Operation Chammal). Paris suffered...
Lithuanian Naval Force, the Lithuanian Air Force and the Lithuanian Special Operations Force. In wartime, the Lithuanian State Border Guard Service (which is...
UN-led MINUSCA while the French peacekeeping mission was known as OperationSangaris. By 2015, there was little government control outside of the capital...
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coordinated the exterior operations of Operation Barkhane in Sahel, OperationSangaris in Central African Republic and Opération Chammal in Syria and in...
its troops to the Central African Republic in December 2013 under OperationSangaris, claiming on behalf of Central African Muslim and ex-Seleka, Sabone...
campaigns since the corps' foundation, both on home soil and in theaters of operations around the world. They are stationed in Metropolitan France, in many French...
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Militarily intervened in Mali (Operation Serval), in the Central African Republic (OperationSangaris) and in Iraq and Syria (Operation Chammal). Paris suffered...
between 7 and 8 April 2018, MINUSCA and FACA (CAR armed forces) launched "Operation Sukula" to disarm PK5 self-defense groups. Two militiamen were killed...
national authorities. Three Burundian blue helmets were wounded during this operation. On 17 August 2016 it was reported that PK5 armed groups fired into the...
The clashes cumulated in Operation BEKPA 2, when United Nations forces, including Portuguese and Bangladeshi special operations forces and Nepalese Peacekeepers...
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