The declaration came on Sunday without any real notice.
The juntas in power in Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger announced on Sunday, at the opening of the television news, their withdrawal “
without delay
” from the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS).
This hasty exit from the countries of
the “khaki alliance
” was only half surprising.
It is, in fact, part of a sort of logic of rupture with its past and its neighbors imposed by the officers who have ruled Mali since 2020, Burkina Faso since 2022 and Niger since July.
“The timing is quite unexpected.
But for the rest, this happens in a context of recomposition after the forced departure of French troops from Mali then from Niger, the withdrawal of Minusma
(the UN mission in Mali, Editor's note)
then the end of the G5 Sahel
. notes Rodrigue Koné, researcher at the Institute for Security Studies (ISS).
Bluffing
The leaders of the three countries, united since the fall in an Alliance of Sahel States (AES), have justified their choice...
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