Statement of the Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for the Sahel to the Security Council

8 Feb 2016

Statement of the Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for the Sahel to the Security Council

New York, 25 November 2015 - Security threats continue to be the main preoccupation in the Sahel region. Increasingly, the countries of the region, who are amongst the poorest and least developed in the world, are forced to dedicate important percentages of their budgets to address security threats, in a region where only 56 percent of children have access to primary education, and only 36 percent of the population