{"id":35003,"date":"2017-06-06T11:56:09","date_gmt":"2017-06-06T11:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/eu-to-give-50m-euros-to-new-african-fighting\/"},"modified":"2017-06-06T11:56:07","modified_gmt":"2017-06-06T11:56:07","slug":"eu-to-give-50m-euros-to-new-african-fighting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/eu-to-give-50m-euros-to-new-african-fighting\/","title":{"rendered":"EU to give 50m euros to new African fighting force"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{The European Union has agreed to give more than 50m euros to fund a new African joint military force in the Sahel region.}<\/p>\n<p>The force will be made up of troops from Mauritania, Mali, Chad, Burkina Faso and Niger, known as the Sahel G-5.<\/p>\n<p>Its main mission will be to combat jihadist groups active in the region, as well as tackle trafficking networks and illegal migration.<\/p>\n<p>The Sahel is home to many Islamist groups, some aligned with al-Qaeda.<\/p>\n<p>More than 3,000 French troops and 12,000 UN troops have been engaged in Mali since 2013, when Islamist and Tuareg militants led an insurgency in the north of the country.<\/p>\n<p>The militants were pushed out but they have continued to mount sporadic assaults on peacekeepers in northern and central regions.<\/p>\n<p>The UN peacekeeping mission is one of the UN&#8217;s most dangerous in decades, with more than 115 peacekeepers killed in four years.<\/p>\n<p>The violence has spilled over the border into Burkina Faso and Ivory Coast, with tourists targeted in recent years.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Stability and development of the Sahel region are crucial not only for Africa but also for Europe,&#8221; EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini said on Monday in the Mali capital, Bamako.<\/p>\n<p>Mali&#8217;s Foreign Minister Abdoulaye Diop announced on Monday that the new force would have some 10,000 soldiers and police officers and become operational by the end of the year.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-20595 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/_96356765_e3e0be17-ae24-4fc2-a1ed-6748265aa1d7.jpg\" alt=\"France&#039;s new President Emmanuel Macron paid a visit to French troops in Mali last month\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>Source:BBC <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{The European Union has agreed to give more than 50m euros to fund a new African joint military force in the Sahel region.} The force will be made up of troops from Mauritania, Mali, Chad, Burkina Faso and Niger, known as the Sahel G-5. Its main mission will be to combat jihadist groups active in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[100],"byline":[249],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-35003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-africa","byline-bbc"],"bylines":[{"id":249,"name":"BBC","slug":"bbc","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":104}],"contributors":[{"id":249,"name":"BBC","slug":"bbc","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":104}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35003","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35003"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35003\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35003"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=35003"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=35003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}