Burkina Faso and Niger have followed Mali in announcing they are to withdraw from an international force known as the G5 that was set up to fight Islamists in the Sahel region. All three countries ...

TASS/. Moscow will continue to support the G5 Sahel group (Mali, Burkina Faso, Niger, Chad and Mauritania) by providing weapons, equipment and training peacekeepers in order to combat the threat ...

Hollande touted the mission as a blueprint for future cooperation, and the following year, the G5 Sahel - a regional security and development initiative - was established with French backing.

The joint G5 Sahel countries have an estimated 5,000-strong force but some troops are under-trained and poorly equipped. The US has two drone bases in Niger.

According to the Russian diplomat, Moscow welcomes the establishment of a special counter-terrorism force of the Group of Five Sahel States (G5 Sahel, consisting of Burkina Faso, Mauritania ...

Withdrawal from ECOWAS He also briefed Council members of the Summit of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) last week, where leaders took note of the decision by Burkina Faso, Mali, ...