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Burkina Faso and Niger were withdrawing from a military alliance fighting a jihadist insurgency in the Sahel region of West Africa, they announced on Saturday.
The countries’ military leaders said they had already quit the Group of Five (G5) Sahel alliance on November 29.
“The organization is failing to achieve its objectives. Worse, the legitimate ambitions of our countries of making the G5 Sahel a zone of security and development are hindered by institutional red tape from a previous…
