{"id":13162,"date":"2026-09-19T12:04:13","date_gmt":"2026-09-19T15:04:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipa-aip.org\/?post_type=document&#038;p=13162"},"modified":"2026-09-19T12:04:14","modified_gmt":"2026-09-19T15:04:14","slug":"mali-burkina-faso-and-niger-are-fighting-together-for-sovereignty","status":"publish","type":"document","link":"https:\/\/ipa-aip.org\/ar\/document\/mali-burkina-faso-and-niger-are-fighting-together-for-sovereignty\/","title":{"rendered":"Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger are fighting together for sovereignty"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;53 countries, 53 flags; that&#8217;s sovereignty by the flag.&#8221; \u2013 Youlouka Damiba, general secretary of Burkina Faso&#8217;s Thomas Sankara Memorial, opening his address on the Alliance of Sahel States<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On paper, independence \u2013 in practice, currencies controlled by former colonisers, armies bound by secret agreements, and economies locked into exporting raw materials. The AES&#8217;s answer isn&#8217;t reform, but a total breaking away from the old arrangement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Damiba lays out the seven fronts where Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger are fighting together: currency and finance, the narrative itself, cultural and spiritual reclamation, confrontation with religiously-framed armed groups, security built on their own terms rather than an outsourced colonial army, local production instead of raw-material export, and diplomacy that isn&#8217;t run through Paris.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">1.7 million square kilometres, one confederation, four founding pillars: a self-managed economy, organised popular power, decolonised education, and popular defence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;53 countries, 53 flags; that&#8217;s sovereignty by the flag.&#8221; \u2013 Youlouka Damiba, general secretary of Burkina Faso&#8217;s Thomas Sankara Memorial, opening his address on the Alliance of Sahel States On paper, independence \u2013 in practice, currencies controlled by former colonisers, armies bound by secret agreements, and economies locked into exporting raw materials. The AES&#8217;s answer [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":13163,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":true},"tags":[13,22],"document-reference":[263],"document-type":[249],"class_list":["post-13162","document","type-document","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-anti-imperialism","tag-political-power","document-reference-solidarity-peoples-aes","document-type-external-videos"],"blocksy_meta":{"styles_descriptor":{"styles":{"desktop":"","tablet":"","mobile":""},"google_fonts":[],"version":7}},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipa-aip.org\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/13162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipa-aip.org\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipa-aip.org\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/document"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipa-aip.org\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipa-aip.org\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipa-aip.org\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13162"},{"taxonomy":"document-reference","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipa-aip.org\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-reference?post=13162"},{"taxonomy":"document-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipa-aip.org\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-type?post=13162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}