{"id":2941,"date":"2022-05-16T11:32:31","date_gmt":"2022-05-16T11:32:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.qiraatafrican.com\/?p=2941"},"modified":"2022-05-16T11:45:09","modified_gmt":"2022-05-16T11:45:09","slug":"mali-pulls-out-of-regional-g5-sahel-force","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/2941\/mali-pulls-out-of-regional-g5-sahel-force\/","title":{"rendered":"Mali pulls out of regional G5 Sahel force"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mali is withdrawing<\/a> from a multinational military group fighting an armed insurgency in West Africa’s Sahel area, according to the country’s military administration.<\/p>\n

The G5 Sahel force, which includes troops from Niger, Chad, Burkina Faso and Mauritania, was set up in 2017 to counter armed groups who have swept across the region in recent years, killing thousands of people and forcing millions to flee their homes.<\/p>\n

But the force has been hobbled by a lack of funding and has struggled to reduce the violence.<\/p>\n

The statement by Mali\u2019s military government, which overthrew former President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita and took power in a 2020 coup, blamed a lack of progress in the fight against the armed groups and the failure to hold recent meetings in Mali.<\/p>\n

The move further isolates Mali, which has also been\u00a0slapped with sanctions\u00a0from West Africa\u2019s regional political bloc, hitting jobs and industry in the impoverished country.<\/p>\n

And it comes as anti-French sentiments continue to rise in the country, even after the February\u00a0announcement of the withdrawal<\/a> of French troops\u00a0in the Sahel state.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Mali is withdrawing from a multinational military group fighting an armed insurgency in West Africa’s Sahel area, according to the country’s military administration. The G5 Sahel force, which includes troops from Niger, Chad, Burkina Faso and Mauritania, was set up in 2017 to counter armed groups who have swept across the region in recent years, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2942,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"source_name":"Agencies","source_url":"","via_name":"","via_url":"","override_template":"0","override":[{"template":"1","single_blog_custom":"","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"1","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"top","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_share_counter":"0","show_view_counter":"0","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author":"0","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_category":"1","show_post_reading_time":"0","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","show_zoom_button":"0","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","show_prev_next_post":"0","show_popup_post":"0","number_popup_post":"1","show_author_box":"0","show_post_related":"1","show_inline_post_related":"1"}],"override_image_size":"0","image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post":"0","trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post":"0","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","sponsored_post_name":"","sponsored_post_url":"","sponsored_post_logo_enable":"0","sponsored_post_logo":"","sponsored_post_desc":"","disable_ad":"0"},"jnews_primary_category":{"id":""},"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":{"override_view_counter":"0","view_counter_number":"0","override_share_counter":"0","share_counter_number":"0","override_like_counter":"0","like_counter_number":"0","override_dislike_counter":"0","dislike_counter_number":"0"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,1129],"tags":[208,475,1180,470,383],"class_list":["post-2941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-west-africa","category-security","tag-burkina-faso","tag-chad","tag-g5-sahel-force","tag-mauritania","tag-niger"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2941","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2941"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2941\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}