Six years have passed since Operation Serval in northern Mali, neither this, nor Barkhane nor the G5 Sahel have so far managed to defeat or even contain terrorism in the region. The G5 Sahel irrelevanceThe G5 Sahel (Mauritania, Mali, Burkina Faso, Niger and Chad) group is supposed to eventually take over from Barkhane’s forces in the fight against terrorism. Meanwhile, African countries in general, and the G5 Sahel leaders in particular, remain behind on the platform. In so doing, they however endanger not only the entire Sahel region - in its broadest definition - but also much of the African continent, if not Africa as a whole. That ideological-strategic battle for the control of the entire region of the Sahel, from the Red Sea to the Atlantic coast.

Source: The North Africa Journal June 18, 2019 17:15 UTC