Spain's Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez is to make his first international trip since the
Coronavirus crisis to west Africa on Tuesday for a summit on Sahel region issues with other heads of state including France's President
Emmanuel Macron.
The European leaders will be joined in Mauritania by heads of the so-called G5 Sahel states - also including Mali, Burkina Faso, Chad and Niger - and U.N. boss Antonio Guterres, Sanchez's office said in a statement.
In another sign of travel slowly resuming after months of coronavirus lockdowns, Spain's Foreign Minister Arancha Gonzalez Laya said the
European Union would have a list of COVID-19-safe countries outside the bloc ready by Tuesday at the latest.