West Africa: Setting Up the G5 Sahel - Why an Option That Seemed Unlikely Came Into Being

[The Conversation Africa] At first glance, the creation in 2014 of the G5 Sahel, an international organisation set up to deal with conflict management in the Sahel, seemed unlikely. Some analysts were already describing a "security traffic jam" in the region. This was in reference to the fact that there were a range of actors involved in conflict management in the Sahel.