Mauritania’s president: G5 Sahel anti-terror task force plagued by ‘security flaws’
02 July 2018 |
4:54 am
Ahead of the African Union summit in Nouakchott this Sunday, FRANCE 24 sat down with Mauritania’s President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz to discuss a number of issues, including his vision of the joint African anti-terror task force, G5 Sahel.
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