EU, Other International Donors Pledge $500M For West Africa’s G-5 Sahel Countries

The European Union and other international donors have pledged over five hundred thousand dollars to support a multi-national military operation in Africa’s vast Sahel region, which has fallen prey to smugglers, human traffickers and terrorists in recent years. The pledges were made at an international meeting on the Sahel in Brussels. The G-5 Sahel countries...