G5 Sahel
Headquarters
Nouakchott, Mauritania
Date of creation
16 February 2014
Objectives
The G5 Sahel’s objective is to guarantee conditions of development and security in the area of its member countries; to offer a strategic intervention framework; to combine development and security; to support democracy and good governance in a framework of mutually beneficial regional and international cooperation; and to promote inclusive and sustainable regional development.
Timeline
2014 |
Creation of the G5 Sahel as a framework for regional interstate cooperation in security and development |
2014 |
G5 Sahel becomes an international organisation with a legal framework and a secretariat |
2017 |
Creation of the G5 Sahel Joint force – first military operation takes place |
Normative framework
Activities
Political dialogue
Date |
Institutions |
Agreement |
2017 |
World Bank, the African Development Bank, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), Italy, Spain, the United Kingdom, Luxembourg, Denmark, and Netherlands |
Sahel Alliance launched by France, Germany, and the EU with the objective to increase coordination between partners and accelerate the implementation of assistance and projects, while addressing the needs expressed by the beneficiary countries and the G5 Sahel Secretariat |
2020 |
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Launch of the Coalition for the Sahel, to facilitate coordination and interactions between the various strands of international action supporting the G5 countries – announced at the 2020 Pau Summit |
Governance and development
Areas |
Date |
Activities |
Development and security nexus |
2014 |
Adoption of the Priority Investment Programme (PIP) to implement the Development and Security Strategy |
Peace and security
Activity |
Date |
Description |
Intelligence and information sharing |
2015 |
Security Cooperation Platform (Plate-forme de Coopération en Matière de Sécurité – PCMS) with ONUDC support |
Cross-border security |
2015 |
Military partnership for cross-border cooperation (Partenariat militaire de coopération transfrontalière –PMCT) formalised by the signing of the Operating Charter with French (Operation Barkhane) support |
Capacity-building |
2017 |
Sahelian Security College (Collège sahélien de sécurité) –Bamako |
G5 Sahel Joint force |
Since 2017 |
Military operations |
G5 Sahel Joint force |
2018 |
Operationalisation of the police component |
Capacity-building |
2018 |
Sahelien Defence College (Collège de defense du G5 Sahel) – Nouakchott |
Financial support |
2018 |
Launching of G5 Sahel Trust Fund (Fonds Fiduciaire pour la FC-G5S) |
Early warning |
2018 |
Decision to create Sahelian Center for Threat Analysis and Early Warning Centre sahélien d’analyse des menaces et d’alerte précoce – CSAMAP). Project approved in 2015. |