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How Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger Took Back the Sahel

Jonis Ghedi-Alasow, director of Pan Africanism Today, joins the show to discuss the second anniversary of the Alliance of Sahel States.

The alliance between Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger formed as a result of the popular anti-colonial uprising that swept Niger in 2023.

Ghedi-Alasow discusses how AES, a counterweight to the Western-backed ECOWAS, has put the region on the path to building lasting sovereignty from Western pressure, threats of military intervention, and extremist violence.

France wanted the Sahel in chaos to strip it of wealth.

“When people fear being killed, they can’t organize against the plunder of their country’s wealth,” says Jonis Ghedi-Alasow of Pan Africanism Today

The Alliance of Sahel States is breaking that cycle.

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Rania Khalek

Rania Khalek is an award-winning Lebanese-American journalist and host of Dispatches on Breakthrough News, where she investigates the global consequences of imperialism, war, and systemic oppression. With over a decade of frontline reporting from conflict zones and marginalized communities, her work has been featured in The Nation, The Intercept, Al Jazeera, FAIR, and The Electronic Intifada, where she served on the editorial board.

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  • Guy St Hilaire
    at 6:22 pm

    So good to see the African continent waking up .

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