Why Mali, Niger, and Burkina Faso are forming a new country

The new military rulers of #Mali, #Niger, and #BurkinaFaso are drawing up plans to form a #confederation between them, conjuring a country unlike any other.

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[hfymlhd]

BetterHelp has a horrifying history of violating privacy laws. Unless you want all of your most intimate details to end up in the hands of the highest bidder, I'd avoid them. Kinda disappointed you keep plugging them. It reveals a lack of strategic awareness of the field in which you are conducting operations.

[rmmvw]

ECOWAS decided to close their ports from the Sahel Confederation to economically pressure them. Morocco is using this opportunity to open its ports to them. It's usually said that there are no such things as friendships, just shared interests and you can see how the entire African continent practices that to its full extent.

[tom.mp]

Fucking hell dude, BetterHelp. How have so many youtubers just decided that doing ads for companies with such bad track records is fine now. Come on.

[mrtno]

Alliance of Sahel States... the mighty ASS....

[cy-one]

Disliked for the choice in sponsor specifically.

[issinUSA]

BetterHelp does NOT have licensed psychologists, if you need a psychologist please go to a licensed practicioner

[SadSlav]

"Regime change is a funny thing"

So memeable

[seargesoren]

PSA: BetterHelp sells your psych data!

[Feeldartcorp]

You forgot to mention a very important information about Morocco signing a deal to give the three countries an access to the Atlantic Ocean through Dakhla port in the moroccan western sahara

[BrileyBeConsulting]

This use to be the location of the former successive Empires of Ghana, Mali and Songhai, albeit a slightly different footprint. Their cooperation has some historic undertones.

[Rickrickrickg]

We'll probably see more confederations in South America and Africa in the near future. Industrialization and the need to advance economic opportunities outside of poverty will only force states to pool their resources together

[Mr.Autodelete]

Isn’t it true that the CFA frank was made specifically so the French could basically import their resources for free?

[xultimate]

No 😭 he sponsored better help scammers 😭

[Numba]

Whatever happens, I hope peace increases and suffering decreases for the common people of these nations. Thank you for the news update on this. I didn't realize these three were discussing a confederacy.
God be with you out there, everybody. ✝️ :)

[bradsillasen]

I hope all the sponsorship comments are taken to heart. I suspect that Caspian Report uses some sort of intermediary to garner sponsors, but due diligence is up to the consumer.

[Grimloxz]

⁠Man, the folks on here just comment so confidently yet out of their 🫏 with near ZERO knowledge of the region’s history. The same ethnic groups that are today fractured due to imposed colonial borders were once unified under various empires and states.

Songhai, Karen-Bornu, the Mossi States, the Hausa Confederation, and of course the Mali Empire among others inhabited the same range. They supported numerous interconnected and enormous well-planned metropolises over their vast empires that encompassed a welter of the modern day “midget” nations. The walled cities found there boasted a mixture of earthen and brick works roughly 3 stories/10 meters high with a circumferences as lengthy as 80miles/120 kilometres. Kano, Sikasso, Gao, Kong, Djenne, Sokoto, and still others. They weren’t the dusty towns highlighted in Caspian’s reel footage. For those who doubt, I too had no idea until I saw the early European renderings of them and then the ruins myself. This is no Graham Hancock fantasy.

The point being centralisation now would represent a _return_ to prior levels of integration and governance not the introduction of something novel or foreign. But the haughty arrogance and ignorant dismissiveness of many of the commenters is quite instructive. But even _IF_ that weren’t the case, regions like Indonesia, India, and even Europe have integrated. Why not Africa?

[florianmaier]

Niger, Mali and Burkina have already withdrawn from Ecowas in January 24.

[slee]

Three warlords forming a multi-ethnic, multi-lingual “confederation, ” while Islamic Jihadists roam the countryside.

What could possibly go wrong with that?

[celdur]

This is literally what happened in Europe and everywhere else before countries centralized. Africa needs to go through this process as well. Until new solid borders are formed.

[roanwestraat]

It's crazy how quickly france has lost their African influence in this region.

The last 5 years has been insanity in terms of global politics, changes have been quick and confusing.

Thanks for bring some semblance of explanation to these things.