to find out is there a well tells the powerful story of how footballs became more than just a sport in the fight against the french and purchase colonial authorities against the initial executive. and for one thing, actually, the rebel game out, jerry. and so dawn on al jazeera, they left echo are saying it's influenced by foreign countries. now these here molly and pertain, and also have set up their own block calling at the alliance of 2nd states. but what's behind their new agreement? and what impact will it have on the wider regions? this is inside sort the hello and welcome to the program. i'm how much i'm june, molly protein and also and this year have come together to form the alliance of had states. each is ruled by a military john to and that's led to

a split from the larger west african regional block echo was the 3 military rulers have pledged to support each other against outside threats and internal security challenges. but can they find success by going it alone or with a divided savvy region make regional challenges even more difficult to tackle? well, bringing, i guess in a moment the 1st this report from sent him on the 3 leaders united in their isolation chair, molly and for keen of fall. so have announced their withdrawal from echo was that was after the west african regional block suspended, then slicing the recent military takeovers. the 3 nations signed a security agreement last year to come to each other even case armed rebellion or foreign intervention. on saturday, they held their 1st meeting in the chair. oh, really woke up room. our people have turned the backs irrevocably on echo because it's now up to us to create the alliance of the health states. consideration the a b s. it's an alternative to any onto the visual regional grouping by building

a silver and community of people. see the 2nd in 2021. molly's military over through disability and government empties power that was followed by coo and berk unit fall. so in 2022. when the shares military followed suit in 2023 echo off from the military intervention. the 3 states by that together seem to tack on one would be considered an attack on all the military leaders of the newly formed alliance of so health states say they plan to work together to confront armed groups the past year receive hundreds of attacks across the region, thousands are dead, and millions are displaced. previously these states relied on france and the united states for military support, but relation to soured on accusations, frances, interfering, and their internal affairs. the french and american troops have been ordered to leave, and the 3 nations are now increasingly turning to russia. so continuing to

a 1000 for, for goods, the continent that is suffering continues to suffer due to imperialist, these imperialists have, but one key saying they had africa is an empire of slaves. that's how they view africa for them. africans belong to them. all land belongs to them. they've never been able to change their ways. so suddenly the echo off is also fighting, selling the same armed groups. it's seeking to form a dedicated security force. and it's also trying to bring molly new share and for clean up also back into its full it has been cut my pride title in the us. i'm up. participate in that is the way the commission proposed the senator through i suppose the council of ministers rep class might be under suspension. they should be allowed to take part in meetings relating to security.

i swear last insect toward our matrix. the military leaders of molly new chair and breaking a fall, so relying on each other to remain in power. the test now is whether they can split from the rest of the region. well, still confronting common security challenges since monahan, l g 0 for inside story. the, all right, let's go ahead and bring in our guests in bordeaux are one to share as a specialist, an advocate on forces who has been imbedded with military operations in cameroon. and molly, in the workshop and my daughter without delay, farm or foreign minister at martini and president of the san jose harris security strategy center. and i was costume either mind permanent secretary of this i had international solidarity for him. he's specializes in japan to terry and, and development issues in the south region. a warm welcome to you all, and thanks so much for joining us today on inside story. all right, well let me start with you today. observer say the timing of the alliances that

have states announcement and summit was deliberate. they say it's to show echo us the economic community of west african states that burkina faso molly and this year can do without the regional block. but is that realistic? i sent you very much uh giving this opportunity with the zip code. no, it is in 2 days. and is it communication for the ticket they should have taken care. oh, show me to enter. so please call me, i think, visiting to somebody out on this, but i think provide the cost and the put a ticket, the economy security situation is going to be the short of the security or the economy with the no, no king but uh,

this is all i to as to what you know people 16 of give you to me. i see what is behind us. so i don't think they, i think this point 6 with the point to be the origin. but trying to put everything into court. uh, to me is all to bear one um, what does the establishment of this alliance the alliance of how the states, what does it mean for an already volatile region and what impact will it have on the wider region as well? uh, the science uh is its 1st and foremost intended to ensure the safeguard of each of these 3 regina's switch to the top outcasts with the rest of the region. and they've been suspended from echo was so uh, i think that the actual driver was really the concern other and it was really to intervention which prompted the development of these, this alliance. and the statement that an attack on any of the member countries

would be an attack on oh. and now they are trying to develop between $2.00 and $9.00 talk to reason mechanism, which is basically a refraining what existed before with the g 5 cell which also included more returning and to and will like include the intelligence sharing, the, the possibility of joint operations and also, you know, incursions pursue tribes when assuming the, an on group into one of the neighboring countries. whether you can help turn the tides on the surveys in, in the insecurity situation. but these are molly and bertina are leaving is difficult to say because they have lost the thoughts of the novelist that they had . uh, thanks to the uh for your support is where the, the united states with the diesel friends or all the european countries which provided the transport ridiculous support training. so now they're, they're a lot more on their own. yes, there was russian support, but uh that's a that's,

it's too early to say whether that's effective in any way and it's the support that uh they have to pay for. so it's uh right now the security situation has degraded significantly. we've seen a spot of a major defeats for the root canal benoit's area recently with hundreds of uh, soldiers sealed. so right now it's not taking good and it's quite a re to say whether the seller wants to be able to improve this setting in any way . okay, so i'm from your vantage point. how easy or how difficult will it be for the alliance? if so have states to form some kind of whether it be economic agenda or whether it be security policies that will benefit the citizens of their country the next day that treats the patio table more time. yeah. to get it from the core and to be more exciting. i think he's been done most of the as well to see if it's possible for one of the country to be uh, this uh,

the country. so before on the, maybe to we are the speech and the some sort of the dc creation or some of the idea is since i last is the quote, the quote, the all the above 3 minutes each, the video, the what are these companies pay almost increase the, the, the, so on a new way, of course, the days people support from me for a sunday, unfortunately, a cooling the janet, the july 26th. i think for the, for the title don't whether these are many which we know which kind of questions easy to create. the reason i know uh, i just sometimes sit there bmc showing by the display of the yeah, it's not because it was the display of the company's inside of the make. the

command needs the location of the distorted. because when do we start talking these yeah, the combo, but usually somebody under these kind of things or how does the please to the decision? so that's why i think, you know what they're going to do. like, what do you know about 2 months ago the, the full on the inside the try to do that to make a point in just a i never knew that and there might be other ones with the i think this is something definitely right. and that must be yeah, to be for the on the table you have when we pull up the to see the oh, in this video under now you have 42nd to what was the people that. ready the page on of the previous person,

it's from woodson countries from cuz i think it's easy to cushion on to dc the y. hm. oh. and uh, so quoting the company and the how the price to get it down to least um channel basically. i think 15. 0, did you choose somebody to come on more on the more difficult and uh and some of the stuff related nbc area. okay, so i think, yeah, okay, so much, i'm sorry to interrupt you, but i want to get back to you about the point your menu items debility just a minute. let me go to do again. right now, do i want to ask you about the fact that we know that echo was suspended? molly burkina faso in the year after those respective military coups that happened in the past few years. uh, but you know, echo as also they impose sanctions on this year. and molly, but they've also, they've also indicated that they're initiating moves to, to bring these countries back into the fold. how do they hope to do that?

it was sent to me. uh, i think this makes it easy for the vehicle to do what it says. uh uh, 300 name is uh, pretty good position, but the 2nd call submitted the nauseous taking implementation of this is in which is even more difficult. but their goal was to do is to try to confuse one way of uh, the city to say the foot of the waste access to receive dimensionals to they should be. so i'm not going to see why specifically because they don't talk to me. but at the same time,

for me, what is most important is the place in your country should go the tennessee that the cheese is as to whether or not i suppose it is for the and they have to do to get access to the neighboring states. i'm going to call this is true specifically for the need. so here's, here's what i think i'm the organization. i cover the communion, but they don't have mississippi's or cities to this is you may have to remodel on fixing the trying to bring that to finish on. the 17 is also due to the national,

the constitution try to unite the domestic for all of the with the, with the the see if i saw the 72 is a busy in the country and we've got things going on this. what the, what is going to be the better the more care? and there was going to air one of the military leaders of new jerry, malia burkina, faso. they have ruled out returning to the echo us regional block. but from your perspective, is there anything that could change that that could bring them back into the fault? i don't really think the current regime will concede or rejoining a course which they see as a inactive to uh uh, i use western inches with the fact that the, that there was a is,

i mean even though there isn't any could. i mean, i'm wanting to re transition plans to planning still using the c a f f frank. so that's also viewed as an instrument of domination by phone. so i only see a return of any of these countries to request. if there was a receiving change, i don't really see it happening in the current regime unless it was a a can you turn in terms of outreach from like was to these countries? i think they're getting strongly on these sales data lions to, to satisfy the needs. and we'll probably try to work out an individual deal with a one or more countries with the access to the c. we've seen that the, the, the develop, your relationship is to go. so the thought might be the country the, the in for when trying to get to an output to, to see, rather than being gauging uh to join back in a cost to consume i'd, molly burkina faso in his chair. they've regularly accused france of meddling,

and echo was how much did anti french sentiment impact the action that was taking the formation of this alliance? yeah, so i think uh uh, when it was part of the site to make a senshi against my id or you know, in the middle uh oh crap. the flow of my feet was around maybe the have a meeting before or something, and a so the position would be under the position for the airport sunday, created an air conditioning when, oh, that's why you see something that happened. but to the, to see, to see the easy the blue she just the easy. yeah. yeah. of course would be under to

be in the next one. this would be the one file company. it would not be easy for the vehicle, but i think i think some of the it's gonna be possible for them to the inside request spectrum nearby. remember that when they think she needed from me, it was on the. busy wrong is for the, it will be and we can do um, how much will the creation of this alliance draw in non western powers like china and russia. cindy, this is a very important question. as you know, shining. uh, you know, for big couldn't disagree specifically to national relation. and part of it is that they have been there since 66 please and

has been got they had a problem. they never beds a student there today and minister my the my dad and they also don't know what to say. this is the case of what came uh oh let me share this being said uh i had mentioned it earlier, were not envision a foot. coldwell went to the dean fish site to see the input side we discovered by if you look into that. if you look to see if you look for to some expecting. so the should be more the i go to check. and with that, so send it to with easy access to menu, which is the biggest financial realty. that's expensive. yeah. because the conditions that should be careful trying to the

17 and put to new good on put back concrete was a with the reduced to the sauce. but to finish this up soon, if you wanna change this totals at night to kind of change it. sure is there, you know that you'll see the excess then you have to say it for 12 not to go. but keep the good thing access if it to turn it in. so could you uh, set it uh, might be difficult to if i had to put once by all the time. yeah. so my point is should be inside of uh the model will fit succeed. uh is not a citizen conference or so the garage. yeah. it should be on

the go way to the supervisor this property is it just seems to be more oh uh, what kind of situation everyone um echo is has over the years provided troops and security to calendar the armed groups that operate in the region. what is the risk now that this split becomes more of a, of a power vacuum? i mean, does that increase the risk of a violence going forward, more violence from these armed groups operating the region if they perceive the split to be a power vacuum us uh, well, most, uh, the more likely thing is that the, even the security situation in these 3 countries which form the alliance degrades. there is an increased risk that these are groups will be in a position to strengthen more aggressively neighbors for these countries,

whether it's chad for a more time. yeah. or toggle between and we've seen a tax already taking place, particularly in the even toggle, also some indications to in the gonna i think so think of the well so there is a, it's a reset, that even the security situation further degrades in the sales state alliance countries then i'm going to be able to move expand area of operations and targeted other countries, whether the moving away from megawatts has any direct impact on the, the young. but you couldn't make implications resulting from the sanctions from the, from the, the, the disconnection or, and the difficulties in doing between the, the, these 2 countries and their neighbors. and it might not be a direct consequence, but this whole crises of credit uh, and tension that has been ongoing since 2020 has definitely impacted security in

a negative way. and that alone is increasing the risk of uh, of a spread of, uh, uh, the army boots activities to other countries innovation costume. um, i want to talk more about some of the armed groups in the region on groups linked to outside that link to i. so they've jacket for control of territory in, in molly burkina faso and this year. how bad is the situation currently? and the think is this is not uh, is similar in some of the criteria and uh, on the whole i would like to just, i do want to continue on your quickly because in the completion on that easy uh, when maybe to decide on the obama. so close the under, coming onto the 7 days. yeah. you saying went back to dish. we bought the somebody, she went to madison for december and the be going to need to become most of the

looking at this time. so the way i think even the thinking that the solution we come from to create a folder and the kind of the, the, the, the place for p t r. with that, what's the solution? because the from the, from so now we have to move it one way. you see, so now the next night, i mean, it might be on the not, this is usually the new. it's not with the come from the, the big the, uh, competitive what, uh, what type in for pizza. yes. it is. the 2nd from the big the big deal to be on the on the to have some combined under join the suggestion. but on december to the bank and uh now we go see the list on the let me find the

uh lennox is for. ready some reason on the line with you because the mac connected is done with me becoming a little more under more strong. got on the the i think still in individually and the, the class. that's no surprise the on the. yeah. you might have under the come make the share under we to go back much more. can you say that? think that's what the people that the uh, with the diesel degree home branding be joining a quote that you missed on. because this went to the, the, what you would because it might need you to have what else you have there may not help some what's, what's the word for them to come back together. so that's why you're not going to

do that because they have to be some decent. do you just need to be uh running the companies on the publicity? i think this one is due to the end of the day for the coming month. oh yeah. oh, i do um, if i could just get your opinion on on this, who has more to lose from the creation of this alliance going forward for from your perspective ultimately, might it, we can eco us more or might it, we can molly new share and book you in a fossil more so this is again products. course the news is that the city. oh very, very citizen. very well decide of looking but i go to see, oh the it should start to finish the connection.

version is no full quarter for veterans to or to see more minutes of migration with z uh overseas to to yeah. so the uh, zip code please. because expensive quote edition, uh, what was the, what i go to the station where seems to end up in the small 2 uh, working to unified values. if any of these guy goes to chase should have been tested, positive tendency to do by to go back to the type of system. mm hm. so my, the, i saw a gun, it's the union. so the, the kind of what the weight is that just organization is not

able to bring to get the water smoke. uh, it is by but one second for the zip code please. uh, the multi point by point is that should be a tech have include, including what sort of sort of any buy quite fine for a minute here to been. this is really good. it's good to be what happens is when you have a crisis institution, like for one indian me it. so i think that should do it because it can sit by the system but the mississippi. yeah. i'm gonna do. i'm, i'm so i'm sorry to interrupt you but, but we, we have run out of time, so we're going to have to leave the conversation there today. thanks so much to all of our guest, everyone to share as a i'm

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