Mali, along with the broader Sahel region, has endured decades of conflict characterized by insurgencies and political ...

The Mali state’s fight against terrorism continues to be constrained by governance factors (regime rollover and illegitimacy) ...

General Michael E Langley, a four-star general in the United States Marine Corps, is the sixth person to hold the role of Commander of the US military’s Africa Command (Africom). He spoke to ...

African countries… they’re not asking us to pull them up. They’re already there. They want us to respect their sovereignty. Treat them as equal partners. And that’s what we have been doing,” the US ...

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The G5 Sahel countries – Burkina Faso, Chad, Mali, Mauritania and Niger – are confronted with multiple challenges. This report uses the International Futures forecasting system to analyse the likely ...

The two remaining members of West Africa's G5 alliance on Wednesday said they were paving the way to dissolving the anti-jihadist grouping, after the other three founding countries left.

The G5 was created in 2014 but has secured only meagre results even as insecurity remains a major issue across the Sahel. In 2017, leaders of the five countries agreed to deploy a joint anti ...

Their so-called Alliance of Sahel States (AES) was signed in September. But Chad and Mauritania are still part of the G5 force which is meant to be made up of about 5,000 soldiers.

09/19/2023 September 19, 2023. For years, the G5 Sahel has been mobilizing to fight extremists in the African region, but some believe that a new Sahel alliance could mark the end of the French ...

Analysis - For years, the G5 Sahel has been mobilizing to fight extremists in the African region -- but some experts believe that Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger's new Sahel alliance could render the ...