On Tuesday 20 October, the European Union was due to announce €43.6 million in additional support this year for three Sahel countries - Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger - at a virtual ministerial round table on the Central Sahel jointly organised by the EU, Denmark, Germany and the UN.
The figure was announced by the Commission before the start of the afternoon session of the ‘Sahel Now’ conference, which was attended by representatives of the three African countries in question and by...