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UNITED NATIONS: The United Nations is seeking to put human rights advisers and monitors into the 5,000-troop African force that is charged with fighting extremists in western Africa’s vast Sahel region.
Assistant Secretary-General Andrew Gilmour, the deputy human rights chief who recently visited Mali, told several reporters Friday that he told senior military officials from the five troop-contributing countries that protecting human rights “can help unlock” funding for the force.
The five nations — Mali, Niger, Burkina Faso, Mauritania and Chad — have been grappling with a growing menace from extremists, including the Daesh group, Boko Haram and groups linked to Al-Qaeda’s North Africa branch.
Gilmour said his office is preparing proposals for the force on protecting human rights which it hopes to send in the next few days.