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Sahel nations need more support to fight extremism: UN Chief

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres urged the international community Wednesday to support West Africa’s fight against violent extremism, saying the region alone could not be expected to contain the spread of jihadism.

“Unfortunately we are seeing that terrorism is progressing,” Guterres told reporters at the opening of a two-day conference in the Kenyan capital on the fight against extremism in Africa. “I think now it would be important that we are open to support any African initiative involving all the countries of the region, in which the threat that is spreading,” he said.

 

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