Ideas regarding the deployment of foreign troops under the aegis of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), ostensibly to combat terrorism in Nigeria, followed closely the decisive rejection by the public of a proposed establishment of an Africa Command (AFRICOM of the United States) military base in the Gulf of Guinea.
The outcome of the postponed presidential election in Senegal that eventually took place on 24 March 2024 is earth-shattering. The result of the election unimaginably moved Senegal from the enshrined Sedar Senghor-instituted conservative state in the orbit of France in West Africa to the rank of a vanguard state mobilized by radical pan-Africanism.
Last week the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) forgave the revolutionary regimes in Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger their sins of removing democratically elected proxies of France from power. By this generosity borne out of desperation, the organization sought to cover its shame. It returned to eat its vomit in its latest scampering…
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The 37th Ordinary Summit of the African Union that ended in Addis Ababa last week impels an observation of the antiquated character of the divisive Union and the lack of its salience in the context of the challenges in the global order.