Burkina, Mali, Niger: AES ministers meeting in Ouagadougou to create a confederation. A meeting a few weeks after Burkina Faso, Mali and… Niger announced their withdrawal from ECOWAS.
An irrevocable decision, the ministers repeated. The three Sahelian states led by soldiers now want to create an alliance.. Ismaël Sacko, member of the opposition platform Appeal of February 20, says the AES is a solution for the military regimes, but not for populations.