The Sahel Solidarity Campaign Network (SaS-CaN) is deeply concerned over recent reports of criminal attacks on fuel and other convoys’ containing essential goods along the Malian roads leading to the Capital city, Bamako. These are only the most recent incidents of terrorism in a campaign of genocide and race purification against Africans in the Sahel region.
SaS-CaN acknowledges the willingness and commitment of the Russian Government not only to respond to the humanitarian needs of the people of the Sahel, but also to avert a humanitarian crisis in Africa. Russia has also demonstrated its willingness to help provide full and unhindered access for humanitarian actors to operate in all parts of the Sahel region. We know these terrorists were created by Western political leaders, acting on behalf of the deep state to have control over the region’s rich natural resources and wealth.
We call on France and its allies to end the criminal war against innocent Africans in the Sahel region. SaS-CaN urges France in particular, to abandon its neo-colonial agenda in Africa, immediately cease all military operations and support for the criminal proxy terrorist groups in the Sahel, respect Africa’s sovereignty and territorial integrity, and respect its obligations under international humanitarian law.
Terrorism in the Sahel is mostly fuelled by the inaction and complicity of the African Union (AU), which instead of seeking to protect Africans, it opts to promote the neo-colonial agenda of foreign powers in the continent. The position of the AU in the terrorism against Africans in the Sahel region is one of betrayal to the conscience of the continent, and subservient to the wills and caprices of France’s neo-colonialism.
Given that the AU has abandoned the Sahel region throughout these painful years of terrorism and genocide, we call on the continent’s body not to do anything to accelerate the untold suffering of the African people. Already, Africans in the Sahel feel abandoned, insecure and can no longer trust the AU as the august body is acting as a proxima to France ill-intended designs and tastes in Africa.
This is why the call recently by the AU, for international intervention in Mali should be seen as a deliberate act of betrayal. By calling for international intervention in Mali is to extend an invitation to France and its allies to invade the Sahel and destabilise the AES, overthrow the governments and assassinate the leaders of Mali, Burkina Faso and the Republic of Niger. This is France’s neo-colonial agenda and is being bought by some willing African countries, sharing colonial borders with the Sahel region.
SaS-CaN is compelled to express its strongest condemnation of the AU’s call for international intervention in Mali, which in fact posed dangerous threats to peace, stability and ongoing development activities of member-states of the AES (Alliance of Sahel States). The AU has suspended AES member-states in its activities and supported heinous sanctions to punish Africans in the Sahel region for rallying their support behind their leaders. The interventionist AU’s call, far from being a humanitarian necessity, it is a grave misstep that further harms Africans in the Sahel.
SaS-CaN has concluded that, the interventionist AU’s call offers France and its proxy terrorist outfits on the ground, a dangerous façade of false recognition at a time when these evil, satanic terrorist groups are hell-bent on pursuing a heinous and genocidal campaign against the Sahel region. This latest attack on the Sahel by the AU does not serve the interests of peace, security or justice for African people. Instead, the continent’s august body encourages France and its allies in and outside Africa to subject Africans to collective punishment.
The interventionist AU’s call is not an isolated error, but a signal that the continent’s august body has abandon its vision and mission, and exposes its broader failure since the genocide campaign in Libya in 2011. We note that any attempts by the AU to implement its stated agenda for the continent will only end to naught. One would ask what the AU done to have resolved the proxy genocide campaigns in Libya, The Sudan, Somalia, The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Mozambique, Ethiopia, Eritrea or Nigeria. The AU takes action only when the neo-colonial agenda of foreign powers is under attack, and this is total betrayal to the conscience of Africans everywhere in the global village.
In light of these grave realities, SaS-CaN is urgently calling upon the AU to exercise the courageous and principled leadership that Africa demands this moment. The AU must immediately and unequivocally sever all ties with all those powers that are fanning the embers of terrorism in Africa. We expect that the AU recognizes the gravity of this call and will ensure no foreign military establishments to any of the countries neighbouring the Sahel region.
The AU must recognize and engage with the AES. The AES is the genuine representative of the Sahel states and has demonstrated its commitment to accompany the AU achieving stated goals that best serve the interests of the African people. The AU must come out plainly to reject and condemn France’s neo-colonial aggression in Africa, and must stop clinging to empty rhetoric and prove its sincerity to stand for Africa. Anything less will only prolong the AU’s complicity in the genocide campaign in the Sahel region.
Furthermore, the criminal activities of the terrorist groups in the Sahel region demand urgent and principled response, particularly this time that the terrorist groups have changed their strategies, by launching attacks to starve whole population. The AU can repair its image and restore its continental relevance by responding to the threats posed by terrorism in the Sahel region. History will judge the AU, at this most critical moment for Africa, by making the right decision without compromising its original vision and mission. Above all, we urge the AU to reject the path of hypocrisy and complicity, and instead chart a course grounded in humanity, solidarity, and respect for the rights and dignity of the African people.
In solidarity with the AES!
Signed:
Alimamy Bakarr Sankoh
Co-founder and President
The Sahel Solidarity Campaign Network (SaS-CaN)
Notes: The crises in the Sahel region are driven by a “toxic mix” of armed conflict, political instability, and extreme poverty, all exacerbated by climate change. The region, which includes countries like Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger, faces escalating violence from groups like al-Qaeda and ISIS affiliates, leading to massive displacement, food insecurity, and a desperate need for humanitarian aid. Inadequate responses that focus on security over development have worsened the situation, and many countries are experiencing political upheaval, including recent military coups.
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