Lessons from G5 Sahel force for Mozambique

THE Group of Five for the Sahel (G5 Sahel) was created in 2014 by the governments of Burkina Faso, Chad, Mali, Mauritania and Niger, as a platform to collectively address the development and security challenges confronting them. When analysed, one casee similarities between Cabo Delgado’s growing challenges with violent extremism and the case of the Sahel.

Sustained and growing environmental challenges combined with governance challenges, and eventually exacerbated by the Libyan crisis, allowed for the growth and exploitation of inter-communal conflicts by violent jihadist groups which has now created instability in the Sahel.

In response, the AU’s Peace