Alliance of Sahel States vs ECOWAS: West Africa’s battle for legitimacy and power

Alliance of Sahel States vs ECOWAS: West Africa’s battle for legitimacy and power



A summit in Mali of the military-led Alliance of Sahel States has underlined a growing power struggle in West Africa.
The group is challenging the influence of the regional body ECOWAS.

Al Jazeera’s Nicolas Haque reports from Mali’s capital, Bamako.

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42 thoughts on “Alliance of Sahel States vs ECOWAS: West Africa’s battle for legitimacy and power

  1. On one side is the Alliance for Sahel States (AES) & on the other ECOWAS
    Men in uniform who siezed power & delivering services to their people Vs puppets delivering their people to imperialist forces 😅

  2. Crazy how we fighting for imaginary borders that wasn’t even created by us… I’m from Ghana but my family consist of Hausa, bamoshi, Ashanti, that’s all og west Africa 😂

  3. Remember, ECOWAS countries are the ones that fought and sold each other for slave money, not surprised they are the ones sabotaging African sovereignty and wanted to subject everyone to Western neocolonialism

  4. Be more honest about ECOWAS Al J … ECOWAS is used as a French colonial relic that has been stealing from the good people of Africa through it's corrupted leaders and forceful use of the French currency through outright extortion and blackmail for generations and the Sahel States finally said "No More!"

  5. Somali land means all Muslim countries in Israel range of threat.
    Do collective strike on Israel otherwise Israel will occupy all oil rich Arab and non Arab Muslim states.
    If you don't perceive it now. Then god knows.
    Make your strategy better than before face the challenge together. Teach a lesson to Israel so that Israel will never dare to do it again. But irony is that all Muslim countries are defected within themselves and not united and one against other
    All oil rich Arab shaiks are so materialistic they are worse than grizzly bear they are still in hibernation . Still They don't perceive their destruction at door.
    If they are not united and not taking timely action then worse will be their fate.
    Be united and build collective might to counter the danger.

  6. Not one single country that’s been ruled by its military has ever been considered “great.” Look at Myanmar.
    All military rule brings is instability, suffering, and violence. The previous governments in Mali, Niger, and Burkina Faso were corrupt and weak, yes, but military dictatorship isn’t the solution.
    These guys only have support among pan-Africanist because they’re different.
    (Not to mention that Russia is the worst possible choice for an ally they could’ve made. Moscow’s only interested in leeching off of their resources).

  7. You can't compare the Honorable AES and Traore to evil, corrupt, sellout tyrants like Watawa and laughable tools of western neo-colonialism like Ecowas. Al Jazeera has been spreading biased, fake news and propaganda for quite some time.

  8. "Enemy within." Focus on extremist Islamist armed groups, then focus outside of the state or bloc. Because when the house on fire, then putting fingers at other houses can be a distraction, not a resolution.

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