Togo: West African experts suggest ways to fight violent extremism
Aerial view of Lome in Togo.
AFP - YANICK FOLLY
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Several experts and academics reflected this weekend on the question of political transitions and the strengthening of resilience in the face of extremism with, for example, the cases of West Africa.
The reflection should identify the themes of the next conference scheduled for Lomé.
For two days, several recommendations were developed, the subject calls for urgent action.
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With our correspondent in Lomé
,
Peter Sassou Dogbé
Of the 96 coups since independence, 41 have been perpetrated in West Africa alone, each time imposing political transitions.
The causes come from the legitimacy of the powers says Professor Djibrihina Ouédraogo, president of the Institute for Studies on the Administration of Freedoms and
the State in Burkina Faso
.
“
There is the crisis of the legitimacy of governance
and terrorism
has finally got the better of our rulers, because our populations have reached a level where they believe that democratically elected governments are not able to contain the expansion of the phenomenon. terrorist
,” explains Djibrihina Ouédraogo.
“
We can always get out
of it ,” reassures Professor Issaka Souaré, international expert on issues of peace, governance and mediation: “ We
will have to agree on the essential content of the transition to have a duration.
And in the future, let's also try to play on the factors that may have been at the origin of these coups d'etat, that is to say, we have to play on the governance of the rulers who often make room for coups of state
.
»
Several recommendations were drawn up at the end of the reflections that the Togolese Minister of Foreign Affairs finds beneficial.
Robert Dussey: “
I particularly welcome the proposals aimed at the consolidation of States
.
“
They will serve as a working basis
,” continued the head of Togolese diplomacy during the work of the next conference scheduled for April 21 in Lomé.
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