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The new military alliance among the West African countries of Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso has sparked a major shift in the subregion that has the potential to have an impact not only on the importance of ECOWAS but also on the lives of people in that part of the continent.
Mali’s Assimi Goita, who seized the reins of his country in a military coup in 2020, explained that the Liptako-Gourma Charter is the building block for an Alliance of Sahel States to establish a collective defence and mutual assistance framework for their populations.
The new body carved out of West Africa by Niger and two other countries that rallied around it in the face of ECOWAS’s controversial response now looks set to redefine the power equation so that the repercussions could be felt beyond the subregion.
Some analysts see the birth of the Alliance of Sahel States as a sign of the continued erosion of French Influence in West Africa. During his address at the 78th Session of the United Nations General Debate, Burkina Faso’s Minister of State boldly asserted a thought-provoking perspective on the presence of Western troops in Africa and called a spade, a spade saying, Western Troops are in Africa for natural resources & not for peace mission.
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