West African Leaders Agree Billion-Dollar Anti-Jihadist Plan @ Summit In Burkina-Faso

Date: 14-09-2019 9:54 pm (4 years ago) | Author: Mister Jay Wonder
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West African leaders on Saturday announced a billion-dollar plan to fight the rising problem of jihadist violence in the region, at a summit in Burkina Faso.

The plan, to be funded from 2020 to 2024, was announced at end of the Economic Community Summit of West African States in Ouagadougou, where the ECOWAS nations were joined by Mauritania and Chad.

ECOWAS had decided to mobilise “the financial resources of up to a billion dollars for the fight against terrorism”, said Niger’s President Mahamadou Issoufou.

The money, paid into a common fund, would help reinforce the military operations of the nations involved — and those of the joint military operations in the region.

Full details of the plan would be presented to the next ECOWAS summit in December.

The fight against the rising tide of jihadist violence in the region has so far been hampered by a lack of funds.

The G5 Sahel, a joint taskforce, was created in 2014 to try to tackle the problem, backed by former colonial power France.

From July 2017, it pooled troops from Burkina Faso, Chad, Mali, Mauritania and Niger in a bid to drive back the jihadist groups.

But a lack of finance, training and equipment, limited their effectiveness and their numbers. For the moment, the force numbers 4,000 troops, when 5,000 were originally planned.

ECOWAS — the Economic Community of West African States — brings together 15 countries whose economies range from regional heavyweights Nigeria and Ivory Coast to the impoverished Liberia and Sierra Leone.

Landlocked Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger are non-coastal states.


Posted: at 14-09-2019 09:54 PM (4 years ago) | Addicted Hero
- nmsoma23 at 15-09-2019 04:58 AM (4 years ago)
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another plan to settle the jihadist with our money.
Posted: at 15-09-2019 04:58 AM (4 years ago) | Newbie
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- fineboy77 at 15-09-2019 11:57 AM (4 years ago)
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Quote from: nmsoma23 on 15-09-2019 04:58 AM
another plan to settle the jihadist with our money.
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Posted: at 15-09-2019 11:57 AM (4 years ago) | Addicted Hero
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