The G5 Sahel force, a joint force of five Sahel region countries tasked with fighting militants including Boko Haram and al-Qaida among others, is struggling with funding and lacks coordination ...

The US government has pledged $60m to a United Nations-backed counterterrorism force geared to tackle rebel groups in the troubled Sahel region. The Sahel, traversing Central and West Africa, is ...

The G5 Sahel Joint Force—a partnership among five states in Africa’s Sahel region that have been hard hit by al Qaeda– and Islamic State–linked terrorist attacks—launched its first regional operation ...

(Banjul) – The G5 Sahel military force created to counter Islamist armed groups in the Sahel region of Africa should fully respect international human rights and humanitarian law in its ...

BAMAKO, Mali – Authorities say nine soldiers serving with the regional G5 Sahel force have been killed in an attack in central Mali. The Malian army said Friday that the nine died after driving ...

Martin Welz acknowledges the kind support of the German Foundation for Peace Research. At first glance, the creation in 2014 of the G5 Sahel, an international organisation set up to deal with ...

But lack of equipment, funds and training, together with problems in deployment and coordination on the ground, have left the so-called G5 Sahel struggling for credibility and still dependent on ...

In 2014, five countries – Burkina Faso, Chad, Mali, Niger and Mauritania – created the G5 Sahel group to foster cooperation in tackling the region’s security and developmental challenges. Growing ...

It includes Niger, Mali, Chad, Burkina Faso and Mauritania. These nations are known as the G5 Sahel countries. The countries “highlighted the importance of sending a Chadian battalion to the ...

Blog posts represent the views of CFR fellows and staff and not those of CFR, which takes no institutional positions. The G5 Sahel is made up of the defense forces of Mali, Mauritania, Niger ...

Mauritania will host the headquarters of the new grouping, dubbed the G5 Sahel, and its President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz will initially take the chair, according to a statement issued after a ...