Operation Barracuda

Operation Barracuda wani aikin soji ne da Faransa ta yi a shekarun 1979-1981, domin komawa kan ƙaragar mulki tsohon shugaban ƙasar Jamhuriyar Afirka ta Tsakiya David Dacko.  Ya biyo bayan Operation Caban na ranar 21 ga watan Satumbar 1979, aikin soji ba tare da zubar da jini ba inda sojojin Faransa suka hambarar da sarki Bokassa na Daular Afirka ta Tsakiya.

 Tarihi 
Barracuda ya kasance ƙarƙashin jagorancin Kanar Faransa Bernard Degenne, mai tushe a N'Djamena (babban birnin ƙasar Chadi), wanda ya ba da lambar sunan Barracuda zuwa huɗu Aérospatial SA 330 Puma helikofta da huɗu Transall C-160 jirgin sama, wanda ɗauke abubuwa na 8th Marine Infantry Parachute Regiment zuwa babban birnin ƙasar Afrika ta tsakiya Bangui. Da tsakar rana, an kuma kai wani kamfani na 3rd Marine Infantry Parachute Regiment daga Libreville (babban birnin Gabon), zuwa Bangui. Stephen Smith and Géraldine Faes, Bokassa Ier : un empereur français, Paris, Calmann-Lévy, 2000 .

Har zuwa watan Nuwamba 1979, Barracuda ya yi niyyar kare Faransawa a cikin ƙasar da kuma gwamnatin Dacko, baya ga tallafawa sojojin Afirka ta Tsakiya (FACA) don tabbatar da oda. Bayan haka, ta yi niyyar sake ginawa tare da ba da umarni ga FACA don tabbatar da zaman lafiyar ƙasar. Barracuda ya ƙare a watan Yuni 1981 kuma an maye gurbinsa da "Abubuwan da ke Taimakawa na Faransa" wanda ya kasance a Jamhuriyar Afirka ta Tsakiya har zuwa shekara ta 1998.

 Duba kuma 

 Françafrique, kalmar da ke nufin ci gaba da shigar Faransa a cikin tsoffin ƙasashen Afirka

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