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Speaking at the Munich Security Conference in 2018, the new European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and Former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair discuss what appears to be an EU policy commitment to military operations in the Sahel region of Africa.
There has been much speculation about why the EU would want to do this. A possible reason may be because they know food production in the Northern hemisphere is going to be impacted by the Grand Solar Minimum and the Sahel will be a major food production region for the world.
However, both Russia and China are already heavily committed to the region and NATO have recently shown an interest. Any EU military action in the Sahel could potentially lead to confrontation between the major powers.