At first glance, the creation in 2014 of the G5 Sahel, an international organisation set up to deal with conflict management in the Sahel, seemed unlikely. Some analysts were already describing a ...

On May 15, 2022, the military junta in Mali announced that it would no longer be part of the G5 Sahel platform. The G5 Sahel was created in Nouakchott, Mauritania, in 2014, and brought together the ...

INTERPOL Secretary General Stock and G5S Permanent Secretary Sidikou discuss the agreement. Photo by INTERPOL The heads of INTERPOL and the G5 Sahel have signed an agreement which will see increased ...

Dr. Akinwumi Adesina, president of the African Development Bank, has arrived in Ouagadougou, capital of Burkina Faso, ahead of the G5 Sahel Summit, and was received by Burkina Faso’s president, Mark ...

UNITED NATIONSUNITED NATIONS — Africa’s Sahel region has become a hot spot for violent extremism, but the joint force set up in 2014 to combat groups linked to the Islamic State, al-Qaida and others ...

G5 Sahel heads of state at a Summit on Friday in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, gave strong support to Desert to Power, an Africa Development Bank (https://www. Read more.

The United States donated more than $8 million in military equipment to Niger in a ceremony Aug. 5. The equipment will aid the West African nation and its G5 Sahel Joint Force partners in the fight ...

The recent spread of terrorism and violent extremism, uncontrolled transnational organized crime and illicit cross-border trafficking in drugs, arms and people, as well as lack of good governance and ...

PARIS (Reuters) - A Saudi-backed Islamic military coalition will provide logistical, intelligence and training to a new West African counter-terrorism force that is struggling to get off the ground, ...

Mauritania's President and African Union chairman Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz addresses a news conference during the closing ceremony of the 22nd Ordinary Session of the African Union summit in Ethiopia's ...

Although I am not with you physically in Nouakchott today, I am very much with you in spirit. Naturally, I would like to start by extending my warmest thanks to the current chair of the G5 Sahel, ...

BAMAKO, May 15 (Reuters) - Mali is pulling out of a multi-national military force in West Africa's Sahel region combatting an Islamist insurgency, the country's military junta said in a statement on ...