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 conflict ...

The Brussels conference that took place at the end of February capped off a year of frantic activity on the part of regional countries, the EU, and France to create a joint military force of the G5 ...

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, Burkina ...

Following on from the handshake seen around the world and Emmanuel Macron’s call to “Make Our Planet Great Again,” France and the United States are again at loggerheads. This time, it’s over the Sahel ...

A diplomatic spat between France and Saudi Arabia is holding up the delivery of equipment to the G5 Sahel force fighting terrorism in West Africa. 1. The Saudi authorities are wary of dealing with ...

The United States donated more than $8 million in military equipment to Niger in a ceremony Aug. 5. The equipment will aid the West African nation and its G5 Sahel Joint Force partners in the fight ...

Britain is to step up its military support of the UN mission in the Sahel, the semi-arid region south of the Sahara Desert that is being described as the “new ...

U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson’s announcement Monday that the U.S. would contribute $60 million to France’s “Joint Force G-5 Sahel” (or FC-G5S, to use the French acronym) project is welcome ...

(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 operations, ...

The President of the European Council, Charles Michel, and Mohamed Ould Ghazouani, current Chair of the G5 Sahel, will co-chair an EU-G5 Sahel video conference tomorrow, 28 April 2020, with the United ...

The President of the European Council, Charles Michel, and the current President of the G5 Sahel, Mohamed Cheikh El Ghazouani, co-chaired a video conference with all the Heads of State of the G5 Sahel ...