The US Pledges $60 Million in Funding To 5 North And Western African Countries To Fight Al Qaeda, Boko Haram And ISIS

The US has promised to pledge $60 million to support the Group of Five Sahel States (G5 Sahel) Joint Force’s regional counter-terrorism operations. The G5 Sahel is comprised of Burkina Faso, Chad, Mali, Mauritania and Niger. The Sahel region stretches across the south-central latitudes of North Africa between the Atlantic Ocean and the Red Sea....