By RFPosted on 21-11-2019Modified on 21-11-2019 at 08:27
On Wednesday afternoon, the UN Security Council met for its semi-annual meeting on the G5 Sahel. Force soldiers, as well as Burkina Faso's foreign minister, Alpha Barry, made the trip to New York for this milestone. The Assistant Secretary General for Africa has also presented her recommendations, as the force will soon celebrate its two years of existence and the security climate has deteriorated significantly.
with our correspondent in New York, Carrie Nooten
While the security situation in G5 Sahel countries, Mali and Burkina Faso in particular, has deteriorated significantly, the assistant to the UN Secretary-General for Africa gave a comprehensive assessment on Wednesday in New York on the issue of security. G5 Sahel, and reaffirmed the support of the United Nations. She first described the 11 operations conducted jointly with the French force Barkhane, or the UN mission in Mali, the Minusma, and noted greater efficiency of the end-of-year operations, better coordination.
Bintou Keita also welcomes the resources released by West African countries last September, which will endow the force with a billion dollars for the fight against terrorism, before asking the international community a bigger support. To ensure its development mission, the G5 Sahel would need more funds.
Alpha Barry insists on G5 Sahel structural difficulties
By insisting that the amounts of aid be planned and fixed, the representative of the UN Secretary-General supports the request of the G5 countries: Alpha Barry, Burkinabe Minister of Foreign Affairs, whose country holds the rotating presidency of the G5 Sahel, acknowledged that after two years of existence, the force was still in the process of ramping up, and faced recurrent structural difficulties.
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The slowness of sending heavy military equipment has given the advantage to the terrorist groups, who have been able to multiply their operations in the face of a poorly equipped and not yet sufficiently coordinated force.
The details of Alpha Alpha Barry, Burkinabé Minister of Foreign Affairs, whose country currently holds the rotating presidency of G5 Sahel
21-11-2019 - By Carrie Nooten
" Unfortunately we have only received funds from the United Arab Emirates, up to $ 10 million. The rest of the money went through another mechanism at the level of Europe, to be able to equip the states, or to equip the joint force rather with equipment, explained Alpha Barry. The interventions of the European Union can be summarized in equipment in vests, logistics support, and refueling, for example fuel, (funding) food rations of soldiers who are in operation. Then you also have heavy equipment. And the first heavy equipment is now starting to arrive ... The joint force may be operational within a few months, but for the moment, this is not yet the case. "
In Paris, the regrets of Florence Parly
France lamented yesterday, Saudi Arabia's unfulfilled commitment to its € 100 million pledge in December 2017 of the joint G5 Sahel security force jihadist groups. A regret expressed by the Minister of Armies, Florence Parly, during a hearing before the Foreign Affairs Committee of the National Assembly.
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