Macron meets with African leaders to boost anti-jihadist campaign

French president, Emmanuel Macron is hosting a summit with his counterparts from the Sahel belt of western African.

They are to discuss the military campaign against jihadist militants.

Leaders from Chad, Niger, Mali, Burkina Faso and Mauritania, known as the G5 Sahel are gathered in the southern French town of Pau.

Criticism of the mission has intensified with a surge in jihadist attacks, and the deaths of 13 French soldiers in a helicopter crash in November.