The transitional government of Burkina Faso and the Republic of Niger have announced their withdrawal from the G5 Sahel.
The two parties made their decision known in a joint statement dated Friday, December 1, 2023.
Before the latest development, the G5 Sahel is an institutional framework for the coordination of regional cooperation in development policies and security matters in West Africa.
The body consists of five Sahel countries including Burkina Faso,Chad, Mali, Mauritania, and Niger.
In the statement, however, today, Niger and Burkina Faso said they have observed that after nearly nine years of existence, the organization is struggling to achieve its objectives.
They asserted that the body has lost its course and the legitimate ambitions of the States to make the G5 Sahel space a zone of security and development, are thwarted by institutional heaviness, heaviness of another age that finishes convincing them that the path of independence and dignity on which they are today engaged, is contrary to participation in the G5
