West Africa: The G5 Sahel Must Do More Than Fight Terror

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Continued violence and the upsurge of non-state armed groups in the Sahel - particularly in the Liptako-Gourma border regions - saw the launch on 2 July of the G5 Sahel joint force (JF-G5S). Heads of state from Burkina Faso, Mauritania, Mali, Niger and Chad, together with French President Emmanuel Macron, announced at a summit in Bamako that the new force will fight terrorism, drug trafficking and human trafficking in the Sahel.

The summit followed the United Nations Security Council resolution on 21 June that welcomed the deployment of the JF-G5S.

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