In the margins of his official visit to Ouagadougou, the Senegalese Prime Minister Ousmane Sonko has granted an interview to the Radiodiffusion Télévision du Burkina (RTB). It delivered a frank analysis of the crisis between ECOWAS and the countries of the Alliance of Sahel States (AES), reaffirming its attachment to the sub-regional unity. “Our zone is condemned to live together. We are bound by history, by geography. We have no choice”, he said, appealing to overcome political errors to renew the dialogue between peoples and states. He stressed that the withdrawal of Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger from ECOWAS would not mean the end of relations between these countries and the rest of the West African region. He denounces a Manichean reading and pleads for an inclusive approach: “It is not because three countries have left the ECOWAS that there are no more commercial, economic relations”.
Ousmane Sonko on AES and ECOWAS: “Our area is condemned to live together”…
