The European Union's Approach to manage the crisis in the Sahel

Abstract

   The Sahel region in Africa has been exposed to several developments and security updates across different time periods, making it as a very important and complex space with a high acquired degree of security importance; because of various and overlapping reasons and elements that have made it a subject for eventual re-evaluation and possible rebuilding. However, it appears that the decision makers’ perceptions in Europe about threats coming from the south and the problems posed by the situation on the Sahel- region, push the European Union to reorder its security arrangements within its Neighboring borders. These are the arrangements that have resulted in a set of policies which has been known as the European Neighborhood Policy that aims to contain security threats, with a new map of security arrangements with different dimensions: economic, social, cultural and political.