Leaders of Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger, all of which are members of the Sahel Alliance, have decided to take their defence and security forces to the highest alert.
The announcement was made in the joint statement by the three countries’ leaders. A statement published by the AES info website said the college of national leaders closely follows the deceiving maneuvers initiated by the French junta.
It stated the French junta declared the shutdown of its military bases only to replace them with another, less visible mechanism, which pursues the same neo-colonial goal.
According to a statement from TASS, these actions are accompanied by operations on reorganisation and regrouping of terrorist groups in the Lake Chad basin, in Sahel and in some border areas.
It added that the affected areas include borders between Niger and Nigeria, Niger and Benin, Niger and Burkina Faso, adding that these groups receive various support from foreign states, including funds and equipment, intended for destabilisation of the Sahel Alliance.
Faced with these circumstances, the college of national leaders ruled to take the defence and security forces to maximum alert, and make the confederacy’s territory a single theater of military operation, which coexists with the current national war theaters, it added.
