Is Ibrahim Traoré helping to build a new model of African unity?

Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger are moving the Alliance of Sahel States beyond security cooperation. With a confederal parliament, a development bank, joint security structures, plans for easier movement of people and goods, and growing political coordination, the AES is starting to look like something much bigger than a military alliance.

In this video, we examine Ibrahim Traoré’s role in the rise of the AES, the opening of its parliamentary confederation, and why this new Sahel project could challenge the way Africans think about the African Union, sovereignty and Pan-African integration.

Could the AES become a model other African countries eventually want to follow? Could deeper cooperation between Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger succeed where larger African institutions have struggled? Or will the challenges facing the three countries prove too difficult?

Watch until the end and decide for yourself.


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