2023-09-17 23:44:42
Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger signed a military and mutual defense agreement called the Alliance of Sahel States (AES), on Saturday September 16, 2023.
It was the ministerial delegations of Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger who signed the said agreement which establishes a defensive alliance between these countries in military transition.
It has 17 points, including the establishment of an “architecture of collective defense and mutual assistance”, reports AFP.
The text provides in its article 6: “any attack on the sovereignty and integrity of the territory of one or more contracting parties will be considered as an aggression against the other parties and will engage a duty of assistance and relief of all parties. parties individually or collectively.
The Alliance of Sahel States was born in a context of crisis. The 3 signatory countries are all in military transition. In Niger, General Abdourahmane Tiany, the assassin of former president Mohamed Bazoum, is under threat of military intervention from ECOWAS.
On July 31, 2023, Captain Ibrahima Traoré of Burkina Faso and Colonel Assimi Goïta of Mali adopted “self-defense measures in support of the armed forces and the people of Niger”.
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