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schema:articleBody	European anti-jihadist efforts in the troubled Sahel region are "insufficient" and "uncoordinated," a senior US military official said Tuesday. "I think that Europe can and should do more before America should do more in this part of the world," said General Stephen Townsend, the commander of the United States Africa Command (Africom). The Pentagon is looking at cutting African operations as part of a refocus against China and Russia, prompting French warnings that the move would hamper international efforts against extremism. Townsend said that there was "a lot of Western (military) assistance going in there. European-led, French-led and European-led with the US in support." Nonetheless "I think its insufficient and it's uncoordinated" he told members of the House of Representatives, as he testified on the Pentagon's ongoing review of the US position in Africa. Thousands of civilians and hundreds of soldiers have died and more than one million people have been displaced in a jihadist conflict that erupted in 2012 in northern Mali and has spread to its neighbors. Townsend said he considered the jihadist crisis to be a bigger threat to Europe than to the United States, despite lawmakers' concern over potential risks posed by a US military pullout in the Sahel. "I think the problems that manifest from West Africa will manifest in Europe before they manifest in America," he said. The Pentagon's assistant secretary of defense for Europe and Africa, Kathryn Wheelbarger, said that Washington had raised the issue with the French authorities. "The French do highlight, of course, the importance of US enabling support to their operations," she said. "Some capabilities, they simply do not have." "What we have been doing is trying to encourage them to speed up their decision-making on having those capabilities for themselves so they are no longer reliant on the United States," Wheelbarger said. France has deployed 5,100 soldiers in Operation Barkhane to roll back jihadists and has repeatedly told the United States that the situation is urgent. sl/dax/to/bfm
schema:headline	US general says European efforts in Sahel are 'uncoordinated'
schema:mentions	Kathryn Crosby Sahel West Africa Reliant Motors Mali The Pentagon George Washington General officer Africa Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant European Union Russia France United States China Stephen J. Townsend United States Africa Command Operation Barkhane Devin Townsend Jadzia Dax Radio in New Zealand
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