West Africa: Terrorist Groups Exploiting COVID-19 in Sahel, UN Peacekeeping Chief Tells Security Council

5 June 2020

COVID-19 is complicating an already complex security situation in the Sahel, with terrorist groups exploiting the pandemic as they step up attacks on national and international forces, the UN's peacekeeping chief said on Friday.

Jean-Pierre Lacroix told the Security Council that the last six months have been particularly challenging as the G5 Sahel group of nations - Burkina Faso, Chad, Mali, Mauritania and Niger - deploys a joint force to restore stability to the vast African sub-region.

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