The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has warned of the risk of disintegration following the withdrawal of countries led by military councils ,Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger and their signing of the Sahel Alliance treaty.

The head of the ECOWAS Commission, Omar Touray, revealed the serious consequences resulting from this withdrawal, as freedom of movement and a common market that includes 400 million people are among the most prominent advantages of the bloc, which is about 50 years old.

He added that financing economic projects worth more than $500 million in the three countries will stop as a result of the withdrawal.
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ECOWAS warned of the possibility of imposing restrictions on the movement of citizens of Mali, Burkina Faso, and Niger in reaction to their establishment of a new confederation, which threatens to restrict freedom of movement in the region.

The Chairman of the ECOWAS Commission, Omar Aliyu Touray, explained that these countries may be exposed to political isolation and have their investments negatively affected as a result of their separation. He pointed out that this separation complicates the security situation in the region and hampers efforts to form a joint regional force.

While Senegalese President Basserou Diomaye Faye, who attended the group’s 65th summit in Abuja, called for calm and improvement of relations between ECOWAS and the separate Sahel countries, Faye was appointed as a mediator with Togolese President Faure Gnassingbé to address these issues.
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Major General Saddam Haftar, Chief of Staff of the Land Forces of the Libyan Arab Armed Forces, arrived in the capital of Burkina Faso, Ouagadougou, on a two-day official visit.

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He is being visited in his capacity as an envoy of the Commander-in-Chief of the Libyan Armed Forces, Field Marshal Khalifa Haftar, and the visit aims to strengthen military and security cooperation between Libya and Burkina Faso.

Informed sources reported that Haftar met during his visit with the interim president of Burkina Faso, Ibrahim Traoré, at the presidential headquarters in Ouagadougou.

The sources confirmed that this visit came within the framework of strengthening bilateral relations between the two countries and exchanging views on regional and international issues of common interest.
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The Director General of Consular Affairs and the Algerian National Community, Rachid Maddah, announced the readiness of the “Algerian Agency for International Cooperation” to study more development projects on the African continent.

The agency has completed several successful projects in countries such as Niger, Mali, and Burkina Faso, confirming its commitment to continental development.

In an opening speech organized by the International Organization for Migration in Algeria, Maddah stressed that the establishment of the agency came to strengthen solidarity and development in Africa, pointing to the funding amounting to billions of dollars allocated to development projects.
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Many African countries have begun to regain their role with Russian assistance after decades of exhaustion and destruction caused by European colonialism.

On the sixth of this month, 3 countries in West Africa, namely Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger, announced the establishment of a confederation under the name of the Sahel States Alliance.

According to the Russian “News Re” website, the agreement resulted from discussions that took place in the capital of Niger, Niamey, at the first summit of the Sahel countries alliance, in which the leaders of the three countries that signed the agreement participated: Ibrahim Traoré (Burkina Faso), and Assimi Goita (Mali). Rahman Tiani (Niger).

These leaders took the decision to create the alliance in September 2023 and signed the relevant charter.
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The coastal region of West Africa is witnessing major political and strategic transformations with the announcement of the establishment of the Sahel Confederation by Burkina Faso, Niger and Mali.

This new regional bloc came as a result of internal conflicts and political tensions, as these countries declare a hostile stance towards the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS).

Speculation is increasing about other countries joining the confederation, with Equatorial Guinea, Libya, Mauritania, and Chad all indicating their interest in joining.
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The new Senegalese President, Bassirou Faye, called for the issue of the French military presence in Senegal to be discussed “calmly” and “without a sudden break,” stressing the need to get rid of French hegemony in a smooth manner.

This came in a press statement he made on Saturday, where he indicated that this issue would be discussed through the usual diplomatic methods between countries.

Faye raised this issue within the framework of the agenda of the Senegalese presidential elections, as Senegal’s relationship with France and the fate of French military bases were crucial issues.

For his part, Prime Minister Ousmane Sonko wondered about the justifications for the French army continuing to use military bases in Senegal and the impact of this on national sovereignty.
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The President of Senegal, Bassirou Diomaye Faye, announced the appointment of Abdoulaye Bathili as a special presidential envoy to mediate between the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) and the Sahel Confederation.

assigned to with the Tri-Sahel Alliance (Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso), which decided to leave ECOWAS and form a confederation.

Faye confirmed that he was able to convince Batelli to assume the task of special presidential envoy on international issues, about three months after his resignation as head of the United Nations Support Mission in Libya.

“I was able to convince Abdullahi Bathili to make him my special envoy, not only in the mediation mission in which ECOWAS engaged me, but also in other tasks in which I will need his experience, respect and stature,” Faye said.
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Security sources in Niger revealed that seven civilians were killed this week by terrorists in a village, in the Tillaberi region in western Niger, near Burkina Faso.

The Nigerian army said in its latest operational bulletin that “terrorists on motorcycles attacked the village of Dosso Korego, located about 13 kilometers northwest of Kokoro, killing seven civilians and stealing livestock.”

He pointed out that counter-terrorism forces killed 13 terrorists and arrested 29 others in the area before this attack occurred.
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After helping developing national liberation movements in Africa to get rid of traditional European colonialism that robbed countries of their wealth, Russia is currently working to help liberated countries rebuild their capabilities.

The persistent Russian efforts in this regard raised the concern of France, which lost its colonizers on the African continent, which prompted the French newspaper “Le Monde” to publish a report in which it talked about frequent visits by envoys of the General Command in eastern Libya, headed by the commander of the Libyan Arab Army, Field Marshal Khalifa Haftar, who has close relations with… A document with Moscow, to the Sahel countries aims to strengthen their diplomatic relations: Burkina Faso, Chad and Niger, which also have good relations with Russia.
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