UNITED NATIONS, August 28 (RIA Novosti) - UN Security Council's Presidential Statement adopted on Wednesday focused on terrorism in Africa, amid growing concern about the spread of terrorism in Iraq and Syria by the Islamic State.
The Security Council statement expressed grave concerns about “the activities in the Sahel region of terrorist organizations, including the Organization of al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM), Jama'atu Ahlis Sunna Lidda'awati Wal-Jihad (Boko Haram), Ansar Eddine, the Mouvement pour l'Unification et le Jihad en Afrique de l'Ouest (MUJAO) and al-Mourabitoun, and reiterates its strong condemnation of the recent terrorist attacks perpetrated in the region”
Chad, which drafted the statement, is included in a new Group of Five (G5) for the Sahel along with Burkina Faso, Mali, Mauritania and Niger.
“The Security Council remains concerned about the extremely fragile humanitarian situation in the Sahel region where at least 20 million people remain at risk of food insecurity and nearly 5 million children are at risk of acute malnutrition,” the Council said in a statement.
The note welcomed the Nouakchott Process established in 2013 as part of the African Peace and Security Architecture with the aim of strengthening the ability of the countries of the Sahel region to play a greater role in combating terrorism and transnational organized crime.
