UN General Assembly
2018

I can also assure the Assembly that the people of Mali are most grateful for the active solidarity of the international community in the form of the presence and support of the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali, the European forces, the French Operation Barkhane, the Group of Five for the Sahel (G-5 Sahel), the African Union, the Economic Community of West African States and neighbouring countries. In addition to the devastating effects of climate change on the living conditions of our population, the Sahel has for several years faced terrorism, transnational organized crime and trafficking of all kinds, especially of drugs, arms, illicit goods and migrants, and money- laundering. A war for the anti-Christ, from before the Prophet; a war waged on behalf of darkness, in which death is not an accident, a battlefield casualty or even or a supreme sacrifice but the ultimate goal — that is what we are dealing with in the Sahel. It is all too easy to understand the urgency of the universal call to fight against terrorism.