Niger, Mali, Burkina Faso seek to boost cooperation • FRANCE 24 English

[Music] a red carpet welcome for the burkinabe leader as he joins his counterparts from Mali and ner for a joint Summit it’s the first time the three jent leaders are convening talks as an alliance of sahal States a new Regional block aimed at reconciling a divided West Africa on the agenda the fight against terrorism and finding ways to boost cooperation this is a first and historic Summit of the alliance of Sahel States today we are are very proud to see an African Summit a summit where states have decided to pull their energy to pull their forces to create an alliance for development without any foreign stakeholders without any counterparts from powers that are used to ruling over us Mali Bina Faso and niia set up the mutual defense pact in September announcing plans for joint anti-jihadist efforts in early March it aims to create a single military command for the Nations troops combating terrorism and on the sidelines also seeks to launch a common currency the three nations have been facing deadly jihadist violence for years namely by groups linked to the Islamic State who’ve killed thousands of civilians and soldiers and displaced Millions the new alliance was formed after the trio left the wider Block echas in January alleging it was manipulated by former colonial rule of France who they say didn’t provide enough anti-jihadist support n’s r ruling General says the gleed countries have turned their backs on eoas and have since pivoted towards Russia turkey and Iran echas will nonetheless hold talks with the leaders of the new alliance in Nigeria on Sunday to discuss relations with the block

The Burkinabe leader had a red-carpet welcome, as he joined his counterparts from Niger and Mali for a joint summit. It’s the first time the three junta leaders are convening talks as an alliance of Sahel states, a new regional bloc aimed at reconciling a divided West Africa. On the agenda: fighting terrorism and finding ways to boost cooperation. FRANCE 24’s Jennie Shin has more in this report. 

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28 comments

  12. I really the fact that this is a summit by africans for africans! Africans are tired to see their leaders being summonised and humilliated by little girls and boys like Giorgia Maloni, Emmanuelle "Macaroni" and others, and go there, filled in school busses like students! Proud of the AES alliance! 👏🏿👏🏿👍🏿👍🏿👌🏿👌🏿✊🏿✊🏿💪🏿💪🏿💪🏿💪🏿💪🏿💪🏿💪🏿💪🏿

  14. Mohammed bin Salman (current crown prince of Saudi Arabia) told The Washington Post in April 2017 that without America's cultural influence on Saudi Arabia, "we would have ended up like North Korea." I'm saying this to explain Burkina and all those other banana republic's have nothing going for themselves and their citizens like it or not 😁

  15. countries working together for a common good is a great thing, however, opening dialogues to axis countries, those that have freely chosen to invade neighboring countries and occupy territory via war, is a terrible idea. dialogue with turkey could yield positive results, but dialogue with russia and iran could easily turn into new trouble and disaster.

  19. Imagine only Niger-Republic resources alone is feeding entire France yet the ruthless corrupt french rulers have an audacity to call Africa a third country 😡🇲🇫🗡️😡😡😡

  20. Yes, get rid of the western European masters and let's bring in the Russians, Iran, Turkey and Chinese to push us around and treat us like ignorant slaves.

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