AES prepares joint delegation for talks with ECOWAS
By the AFREEQUE newsroom, based on Senego
The foreign ministers of Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger prepared a joint Alliance of Sahel States delegation in Ouagadougou to negotiate with ECOWAS. The talks are to cover a draft framework agreement and the terms of future cooperation, according to Lefaso.
The foreign ministers of Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger prepared a joint delegation of the Alliance of Sahel States (AES), bringing together the three countries, to negotiate with the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), reports Senego. They met in Ouagadougou on 16 October 2026, after experts’ meetings held on 14 and 15 October.
The talks scheduled in Dakar will focus on a draft framework agreement and the terms of future cooperation between the two organisations. Senegalese President Bassirou Diomaye Faye, the current chair of ECOWAS since the Freetown summit on 19 July, called on the organisation to move from “findings” to “action”. The AES had already prepared its position ahead of the negotiations.
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