Category: Alliance of Sahel States
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🇧🇫🇲🇱🇳🇪🇷🇺 Russia to Deploy Strategic Communications Satellite for Sahel Alliance, Reshaping Regional Security and Influence
In a move signaling a major geopolitical realignment in West Africa, Russia has agreed to support Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger in developing a shared communications satellite. This initiative, spearheaded by Moscow, aims to create an independent orbital infrastructure for the Alliance of Sahel States (AES), directly challenging traditional Western hegemony in the region’s critical…
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🇧🇫 Burkina Faso allocates frequency for Confederation of Sahel States radio station
Burkina Faso’s Superior Council for Communication (CSC) has allocated a frequency for the operation of Daandé Liptako radio station of the Confederation of Sahel States (AES), which includes Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger, the CSC press service reported. 🔸The relevant agreement was signed by CSC President Wendingoudi Louis Modeste Ouedraogo and Foreign Minister Karamoko Jean-Marie…
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🇧🇫🇷🇺 Burkina Faso’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs
🇧🇫🇷🇺 Burkina Faso’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs: partnership with Russia in the energy sector will allow doubling the volumes of electricity produced in the country. This was stated by the head of Burkina Faso’s foreign ministry, Karamoko Jean-Marie Traore, during the presentation for ratification of the agreement with the state corporation “Rosatom” on partnership in…
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🇳🇪 Niger to Invest $106 Mln in Agro-Industrial Center in Maradi Irrigation Zone
The center will be located in the “Djirataoua hydro-agricultural perimeter,” a polyculture zone near the city of Maradi, benefiting from a year-round production system, President Abdourahamane Tiani announced during his national tour. Covering over 600 hectares, the area produces bananas, eggplants, moringa, corn, sorghum, and millet, as well as processed peanut-based products. President Tiani also…
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🇲🇱🇷🇺 Russian military leaders hold talks with Mali’s leadership
A Russian delegation led by Deputy Minister of Defence, Army General Yunus-Bek Yevkurov, and Lieutenant General Andrey Averyanov held talks with the President of the Republic of Mali during a working visit to Bamako. The head of the transitional government, Assimi Goïta, received the guests at the Koulouba Palace on Tuesday, African Initiative correspondent reports.…
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🇲🇱🇳🇪🇧🇫 The creation of a joint confederate parliament
🇲🇱🇳🇪🇧🇫 The creation of a joint confederate parliament will be discussed by representatives of the three countries of the Alliance of Sahel States (ASS) at the negotiations in Ouagadougou. The discussions are attended by the President of the Consultative Council for the Reorganization of Niger, Mamouda Haruna Jingarei, the President of the Transitional Council of…
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ECOWAS’ new president, Julius Maada Bio, reiterates wish for Sahel states to return to the fold
As he continues his West Africa tour, Sierre Leone’s president Julius Maada Bio, has reiterated his wish that the Alliance of Sahel States will rejoin regional body, ECOWAS. Maada Bio took the rotating presidency of the Economic Community of West African States in June and says he hopes the good relations he has with Mali,…