AES confederation stands tall at two years despite storms
Two years after its birth, the Alliance of Sahel States celebrates its anniversary standing tall, despite the tempests. Captain Ibrahim Traoré, President of the Confederation, seized this occasion to deliver a message of direction and determination to his peoples, in a statement that speaks as much of achievements as of the battles that remain to be fought.
The Burkinabe Head of State did not shy away from reality: this second anniversary is celebrated under pressure.
An economic and media war of unprecedented intensity openly targets the Confederation, with the declared ambition of slowing its structuring and nipping in the bud the unifying momentum that binds Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger.
A strategy that President Ibrahim Traoré situates within Africa’s long history of sabotage against continental unity projects.
Faced with this, the Confederation President’s response is not retreat, but deepening. Consolidating the AES means ensuring that its resources benefit its peoples first.
It means offering its youth real opportunities, giving its producers the means to create wealth, unleashing the energy of its researchers and entrepreneurs, and building armies capable of durably guaranteeing collective peace.
An ambitious program that transforms the anniversary into a roadmap. For two years, in the life of a confederation born in adversity, is not the time to catch one’s breath: it is the time to confirm that what has been sown is beginning to grow, and that nothing and no one will come to reap this harvest before it is ripe.
Neil CAMARA
