The G5 Sahel countries have declared the coronavirus pandemic now the public enemy number 1.

Situation of Covid 19 in the G5 Sahel, 21 May 2020 at 11H UT

Countries Declared cases Cured Deceased

Burkina Faso 809 661 52

Mali 931 543 53

Mauritanie 141 06 04

Niger 920 738 58

Tchad  565  177 57

G5 Sahel 3 366 2 125 224

Table drawn up from data supplied by Internet, section: Statistics for the coronavirus (COVID-19), updated in real time, minute by minute.

The opportunity also to launch « an urgent appeal to all partners for an even greater solidarity and a strong mobilization in favor of the G5 Sahel countries, to bring them emergency aid in equipment, materials and medicines which they greatly lack  » As a response to this request, the European Union has decided to organize humanitarian flights to two of the G5 member states: Burkina Faso and Niger.

The G5 countries continue to face terrorist attacks in the three-border area, Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger, as well as in the Lake Chad Basin (Niger, Nigeria and Chad).

His bitterness seems to have been understood by the other protagonists, since the G 5 Sahel ministers « welcomed the action of the Chadian Armed Forces under the direct command of their supreme leader, His Excellency, Mr. Idriss Deby Itno, and committed the countries neighbors to coordinate their actions in order to eradicate the hydra of Boko-Haram”.