{"id":4407,"date":"2022-09-25T05:19:36","date_gmt":"2022-09-25T05:19:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gulftimes.ae\/high-level-independent-panel-on-security-and-development-in-crisis-torn-sahel-region-launched-at-un\/"},"modified":"2022-09-25T05:19:36","modified_gmt":"2022-09-25T05:19:36","slug":"high-level-independent-panel-on-security-and-development-in-crisis-torn-sahel-region-launched-at-un","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gulftimes.ae\/?p=4407","title":{"rendered":"High-level independent panel on security and development in crisis-torn Sahel region launched at UN |"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The independent panel was formally announced on Saturday in New York on the margins of the General Assembly\u2019s annual debate during a High-Level Event on the Sahel, held under the auspices of the United Nations, the African Union (AU) Commission, the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) and the Group of Five for the Sahel (G5 Sahel).<\/p>\n<p>The Sahel extends across Africa from the Atlantic Ocean in the west to the Indian Ocean in the east and runs through parts of Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Chad, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, and Sudan.<\/p>\n<p>While the UN humanitarian affairs office (OCHA), has said that the Sahel faces \u201cthe worst humanitarian needs in years requiring an urgent scale-up of emergency response\u201d, the Secretary-General warned just last week that rising insecurity, including the proliferation of terrorist and other non-State armed groups, coupled with political instability, is creating a crisis in the Sahel that poses a \u201cglobal threat\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The crisis is being compounded by climate change&#8230; \u201cand if nothing is done, the effects of terrorism, violent extremism and organized crime will be felt far beyond the region and the African continent,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<div class=\"dnd-widget-wrapper context-un_news_full_width type-image\">\n<div class=\"dnd-atom-rendered\"><!-- scald=784911:un_news_full_width -->\n          <picture>\n          <!--[if IE 9]><video style=\"display: none;\"><![endif]--><source srcset=\"\" media=\"(max-width : 992px)\"><source srcset=\"\" media=\"(max-width : 480px)\"><source srcset=\"https:\/\/global.unitednations.entermediadb.net\/assets\/mediadb\/services\/module\/asset\/downloads\/preset\/Libraries\/Production+Library\/24-09-2022-UN-Photo-UN7955831-Sahel-Panel.jpg\/image770x420cropped.jpg\" media=\"(max-width : 768px)\"><source srcset=\"https:\/\/global.unitednations.entermediadb.net\/assets\/mediadb\/services\/module\/asset\/downloads\/preset\/Libraries\/Production+Library\/24-09-2022-UN-Photo-UN7955831-Sahel-Panel.jpg\/image1170x530cropped.jpg\" media=\"(max-width : 1200px) \"><!--[if IE 9]><\/video><![endif]--><br \/>\n          <br \/>\n          <\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/picture>\n<p><span class=\"un-news-full-width scald-credit\">UN Photo\/Rick Bajornas<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"un-news-full-width scald-caption\">Secretary-General Ant\u00f3nio Guterres (right) meets with Mahamadou Issoufou, Chair of the Independent High-level Panel on Security, Governance and Development in the Sahel.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><!-- END scald=784911 --><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In their statements on Saturday, the Chair of the AU Commission, the President of the ECOWAS Commission, the Executive Secretary of the G5 Sahel [a joint force established in 2017 to respond to the expansion of armed and violent extremist groups and deteriorating security in the region], and Mr. Guterres formally launched the Independent High-Level Panel on Security and Development in the Sahel, led by former President of Niger Mahamadou Issoufou.<\/p>\n<p>They highlighted the underlying challenges in the Sahel, including the surge in violent extremism, growing fragility of the economies of the region due to the impact of climate change and the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as complex political transitions.<\/p>\n<p>They called for coordinated international, regional and local efforts in the Sahel and in the broader region to address the current security, governance and development challenges and adopt people-centred security approaches based on inclusive political strategies.<\/p>\n<p>The participants also called on the international community to scale up responses commensurate to the needs in the region, including by providing much needed technical, financial, material, and logistical support.;<\/p>\n<p>They reaffirmed the support of the four organizations to the work of the Independent High-Level Panel and looked forward to the findings of the Independent Strategic Assessment being presented during the 36th Ordinary Session of the African Union Assembly of Heads of State and Government set to be issued in February 2023.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/news.un.org\/feed\/view\/en\/story\/2022\/09\/1127931\">Source link 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