MALI-FRANCE-SAHEL-G5-SUMMIT

French President Emmanuel Macron (R) walks next to Malian President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita during a G5 Sahel summit, in Bamako, on July 2, 2017, to boost Western backing for a regional anti-jihadist force for the Sahel region amid mounting insecurity and cross-border trafficking. The so-called "G5 Sahel" countries just south of the Sahara -- Burkina Faso, Chad, Mali, Mauritania and Niger -- have pledged to fight jihadists on their own soil with instability and Islamist attacks on the rise. Based in Sevare, central Mali, the 5,000-strong G5 Sahel force aims to bolster 12,000 UN peacekeepers and France's own 4,000-member Operation Barkhane, which is operating in the region. / AFP PHOTO / CHRISTOPHE ARCHAMBAULT (Photo credit should read CHRISTOPHE ARCHAMBAULT/AFP via Getty Images)