West African and international powers are failing to tackle the spiraling threat...
UNITED NATIONS - West African and international powers are failing to tackle the spiraling threat of Islamist militancy in the Sahel region, which is spreading towards the Gulf of Guinea, the United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said on Wednesday.
France, the former colonial power in the region, intervened in Mali in 2013 to drive out Islamist militants who had occupied the north, but rather than stabilizing the region, the situation has progressively worsened. In July, the U.N. said Islamist attacks were spreading so fast in West Africa that the region should consider bolstering its response beyond current military efforts.
“The risk of contagion towards other countries is there,” Burkina Faso President Roch Marc Kabore said. “The G5 states can’t handle this situation.”
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