PUBLISHED : 7 Jul 2024 at 11: 23 Niger’s junta leader General Abdourahamane Tiani raises his arms as his equivalents, Mali’s Assimi Goita and Burkina Faso’s Captain Ibrahim Traore, stand throughout the veryfirst normal top of heads of state and federalgovernments of the Alliance of Sahel States (AES) in Niamey, Niger, on July 6,2024 (Photo: Reuters) NIAMEY, Niger – Three military-led West African states – Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso – signed a confederation treaty on Saturday highlighting their decision to chart a joint course exterior the local political and financial bloc that hasactually been prompting them to return to democratic guideline. The finalizing took location at the veryfirst top of the Alliance of Sahel States (AES) and signals an ever-closer positioning inbetween the neighbours in the insurgency-torn main Sahel. Juntas took control in a series of coups in the 3 states in 2020-2023 and severed military and diplomatic ties with local allies and Western powers. Niger’s military leader General A
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