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Liptako-Gourma Charter
September 21 , 2023
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- The military leaders of Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger signed a mutual defence pact.
- The Liptako-Gourma Charter establishes the Alliance of Sahel States (AES).
- It aims is to "establish an architecture of collective defence and mutual assistance for the benefit of our populations.
- The Liptako-Gourma region — where the Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger borders meet — has been ravaged by jihadism in recent years.
- This alliance will be a combination of military and economic efforts between the three countries.
- A jihadist insurgency that erupted in northern Mali in 2012 spread to Niger and Burkina Faso in 2015.
- All three countries have undergone coups since 2020.
- The Sahel is the ecoclimatic and biogeographic realm of transition in Africa between the Sahara to the north and the Sudanian savanna to the south.
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