Moussa Mara: “Quickly, a Marshall plan for the Sahel!”. The Sahel has been in the international news for several years due to the succession of security, institutional and humanitarian crises in which it is the scene.
State weaknesses are widened by significant governance inadequacies against a backdrop of elite corruption, he says. Mara: In Mali, more than 300,000 jobs would need to be created each year to reduce growing unemployment and reverse its endemic trend.