G5 Sahel
: Egyptian Chief of Staff Mohamed Farid presided over the meeting of G5 Sahel’s chiefs of staff hosted in Cairo from February 9-11.
Egypt will host chiefs of staff meeting of the G5 Sahel countries, as well as representatives of the donor states on Feb. 9-11, 2020.
Egypt condemned on Saturday the terrorist attack that targeted headquarters of five-nation West African counter terrorism force in Mali.
The G5 is a task-force of soldiers from Mali, Niger, Burkina Faso, Chad and Mauritania created last year to root out jihadist violence in West Africa's semi-arid Sahel region.