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The military leaders of Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger on Saturday signed a mutual defence pact, ministerial delegations from the three Sahel countries announced in Mali’s capital Bamako.

The Liptako-Gourma Charter establishes the Alliance of Sahel States, Mali’s junta leader Assimi Goita posted on X, formerly known as Twitter.

Its aim is to “establish an architecture of collective defence and mutual assistance for the benefit of our populations”, he wrote.

The Liptako-Gourma region — where the Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger borders meet — has been ravaged by jihadism in recent years.

“This alliance will be a combination of military and economic efforts between the three countries”, Mali’s Defence Minister Abdoulaye Diop told journalists.

“Our priority is the fight against terrorism in the three countries.”

A jihadist insurgency that erupted in northern Mali in 2012 spread to Niger and Burkina Faso in 2015.

All three countries have undergone coups since 2020, most recently Niger, where soldiers in July overthrew President Mohamed Bazoum.

The West African regional bloc ECOWAS has threatened to intervene militarily in Niger over the coup.

Mali and Burkina Faso quickly responded by saying that any such operation would be deemed a “declaration of war” against them.


– Mutual defence pact –

The charter signed on Saturday binds the signatories to assist one another — including militarily — in the event of an attack on any one of them.

“Any attack on the sovereignty and territorial integrity of one or more contracting parties shall be considered as an aggression against the other parties and shall give rise to a duty of assistance… including the use of armed force to restore and ensure security”, it states.

It also binds the three countries to work to prevent or settle armed rebellions.

Mali has, in addition to fighting jihadists linked to Al Qaeda and the Islamic State group, seen a resumption of hostilities by predominantly Tuareg armed groups over the past week.

The escalation risks testing an already stretched army as well as the junta’s claims that it has successfully turned around a dire security situation.

The secessionist groups had in 2012 launched a rebellion before g a peace agreement with the state in 2015. But that accord is now generally considered moribund.

The renewed military activity by those armed groups has coincided with a series of deadly attacks attributed mainly to the Al-Qaeda-linked jihadist alliance Group for Islam and Muslims (GSIM).

Mali’s junta pushed out ’s anti-jihadist force in 2022 and the UN peacekeeping mission MINUSMA in 2023.

French troops have also been pushed out of Burkina Faso, while Niger’s coup leaders have renounced several military cooperation agreements with .

Source: https://punchng.com/Mali-Niger-Burkina-juntas-sign-mutual-defence-pact

Tinubu they’re waiting for you


If e sure you go attack Niger


Them go commot that your maggot infested brown teeth one time

Tinubu...TRY PEPPER..

It shall never be well with fraudulent kriminal politicians in jesus name just look at how a mandate thief has destroyed what is left of ECOWAS! in less than 4 months he destroyed what is left of the bloc now we having counter bloc. How can somebody be dafter than Buhari in this life??

United we stand......

“Any attack on the sovereignty and territorial integrity of one or more contracting parties shall be considered as an aggression against the other parties and shall give rise to a duty of assistance… including the use of armed force to restore and ensure security."

Balabloo-blu-bulava heroin drugman and his ECOWAS have finally been thrown to the mud again. You know what is fuelling this putschists rebellion across the African continent?

The unabating impunity, lawlessness, corruption, criminal state capture, and the unrepentant tyrannical grip hold on political power by the useless autocratic power drunks across Africa continent all in the name of democracy. So Tinubu being a bad example and having integrity issues, really lacks will power to secure Nigeria and take drastic measures in sustaining democracy in West African States.

Oya...
oga tulubu' they are waiting for you.

rintileri:
It shall never be well with fraudulent kriminal politicians in jesus name just look at how a mandate thief has destroyed what is left of ECOWAS! in less than 4 months he destroyed what is left of the bloc now we having counter bloc. How can somebody be dafter than Buhari in this life??

This is the most dreadful thing about this criminal gangster acquisition of political power by African leaders. They have rendered the ECOWAS and AU useless some more.

Hence the continent will never have a cohesive region body to do it bargaining @ the UNGA, Commonwealth of Nations or at any international level of global diplomacy.

Tilumbu ECOWAS power no reach those juntas after making mouth

Racoon:
This is the most dreadful thing about this criminal gangster acquisition of political power by African leaders. They have rendered ECOWAS hence the AU useless some more. Hence the continent will never have a cohesive region body to do it bargaining @ the UNGA, commonwealth of Nations.

Comrade you never sleep

It’s 2am

Abi you dey bomb

Obi would have cut those junta militias to sizes. Don't dare a no nonsense man like him. He curtailed ravaging MASSOB menace singlehandedly in Onitsha from 2006 - 2007. If you know anyone living in Anambra then, ask him or her about Oso Peter Obi (Peter Obi's exodus).

Tinubu lacks will power to secure Nigeria and take drastic measures in sustaining democracy in West African States. If na to appoint only Yorubas for office, he won't waste time. Balablu bulaba. Hit the ground running

I don't blame them. Democracy has been a problem in Africa. Who enter no wan comot.

taylor88:


Comrade you never sleep

It’s 2am

Abi you dey bomb

So Las Las, Ebola na mouth action.

In life, I Don finally agree wetin IBB talk about Yoruba man and talk of war.

Why is tinubu taking time to deploy Asari dokubo PNC or jagaban army to kick out the coupists and restore democracy 😂😂😂

They did well.

Ebola is weak.

Mutual Defense Alliance

taylor88:
Tinubu they’re waiting for you


If e sure you go attack Niger


Them go commot that your maggot infested brown teeth one time

THE SMELLY TEETH COWARD CAN'T DO A SHIT , THEY WILL REDUCED HIM TO NOTHINGNESS.

I for one knows that this alliance isn't for the general good of the common Burkinabe, Malian, and Nigerien.

One country must be taking the larger chunk of the benefits way more than the rest...

Even the background work of art on the wall behind them all clearly brought bare what would happen with so called mutual pact...

The Man riding the donkey maybe a Burkinabe, Nigerien or Malian.

Let's assume the donkey is owned by the three...

Why let only one ride on the donkey? While the rest toil and trek with loads balanced on their heads?

What happens to all of them trekking it out while their loads has a place on the donkey owned in common?

Maltreatment is what I see coming out from this alliance.

D

Rubbish

taylor88:
Comrade you never sleep. It’s 2am. Abi you dey bomb

It is all guns blazing @ all time, anywhere, any how and whatever.

So, this is the end of invasion of Niger Republic?

I didn't go through down.

But putting the Top Story into consideration, nobody is talking Niger again.

Even the so called ECOWAS has given up.

Lesson to learn: Never you give up, stand your ground, hold your faith, no matter how difficult it may seem, Devil will give up on you.

chatinent:
I don't blame them. Democracy has been a problem in Africa. Who enter no wan comot.

I think like OBJ pointed out…


African countries should fashion their own style of democracy.

One that suits her unique personality.

Not copying the Western style!

taylor88:
Tinubu they’re waiting for you


If e sure you go attack Niger


Them go commot that your maggot infested brown teeth one time

No mind Tinubu and western idiots

SEUN u go still restrict my again I no care

taylor88:
Tinubu they’re waiting for you


If e sure you go attack Niger


Them go commot that your maggot infested brown teeth one time

FlawlessKarl:



THE SMELLY TEETH COWARD CAN'T DO A SHIT , THEY WILL REDUCED HIM TO NOTHINGNESS.

bunch of election losers 🤣🤣🤣🤣