(MENAFN)The United Nations seeks to put human rights advisers and monitors into the 5,000-troop African force that have to fight extremists in western Africa's vast Sahel region.
Assistant Secretary-General Andrew Gilmour, the deputy human rights chief who recently visited Mali, said Friday that defending human rights "can help unlock" funding for the force.
The five nations- Mali, Niger, Burkina Faso, Mauritania and Chad- have been struggling with the threat extremists, including the Daesh group, Boko Haram and groups linked to Al-Qaeda's North Africa branch are spreading.
Gilmour said his office is working its best to prepar proposals for the force on protecting human rights which it will try to send in the next few days.
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