Sahel: AES in danger, Bamako, accomplice or victim of the French DGSE?
Mali claims to be sovereign, free, and rid of French influence, but its actions betray its words. How can a country that loudly proclaims its rejection of imperialism simultaneously make pacts with the DGSE, France’s most formidable tool for sowing chaos in the Sahel?
This duplicity is no longer tolerable. It threatens not only Mali’s credibility but also the very survival of the Alliance of Sahel States (AES).
The Malian authorities are playing a double game that borders on treason. Officially, Bamako denounces French interference and displays its solidarity with Burkina Faso and Niger.
In the shadows, however, Mali maintains murky ties with the DGSE, allowing Paris to continue spying, manipulating, and destabilizing the region.
How can this secret collaboration with the sworn enemy of the AES be explained? How can one justify that Malian ministers travel to Côte d’Ivoire, a country openly used by France as a rear base to undermine the anti-imperialist regimes of the Sahel?
Everyone knows that Abidjan is Paris’s preferred relay to suffocate the AES countries.
While Burkina Faso and Niger endure destabilization attempts orchestrated from Côte d’Ivoire, Mali, instead of breaking with this complicit country, extends its hand to it.
Is this complicity, or worse, disguised submission?
This complacency from Mali could well spell the death knell of the AES. If Bamako persists in playing the sorcerer’s apprentice with the DGSE and chasing Ivorian mirages, the entire Alliance risks being dragged into the wreckage.
The Malian people, on the front lines, as well as the authorities of Burkina Faso and Niger, must raise their voices and demand without delay: the immediate and unconditional departure of the DGSE from Malian territory, the complete severing of relations with any country, like Côte d’Ivoire, that serves as a platform for French imperialism, absolute transparency regarding secret agreements made with France.
Mali can no longer afford to procrastinate. Either it fully assumes its membership in the AES and breaks with all accomplices of imperialism, or it assumes its collaboration and bears the consequences before History.
The peoples of the Sahel no longer want lies, manipulations, or false promises. They want action.
