Is the United States planning to invade the Alliance of Sahel States (AES)? Is a recent letter by a certain US Congressman to the US Secretary of State a precursor to this invasion? Do recent developments in Washington and the relentless slandering of the AES by Western media also point to this possibility? What does history have to say? And what must Africans do to protect their Motherland?
In this report for The Spearhead, @barrahart, @sannario_, @okorieuche_, @gofwenjoy, @big_mck and @davidhundeyin, explore these questions.
Sources:
US Congressman McGovern Calls for Sanctions Against Burkina Faso, Mali, Niger Officials Over Human Rights Abuses
https://www.modernghana.com/news/1519900/us-congressman-mcgovern-calls-for-sanctions-agains.html
McGovern’s Letter to Rubio
FULL LIST: Five notable [world] Leaders [kidnapped] by US
https://thenationonlineng.net/full-list-five-notable-foreign-leaders-captured-by-us/
Russian intelligence accuses Macron of authorizing operations aimed at eliminating ‘undesirable leaders’ in Africa
Marco Rubio’s Munich speech criticized as promoting imperialism
https://asiatimes.com/2026/02/marco-rubios-munich-speech-criticized-as-promoting-imperialism/
Trump administration weighing US military action in Mali: Report
1,000 days of Israel’s genocide: Gaza children get killed, orphaned and starved
1915 Invasion of Haiti:
https://history.state.gov/milestones/1914-1920/haiti, https://haitisolidarity.net/in-the-news/the-first-us-occupation-of-haiti-1915-1934
Pretext of invasion & Imperialism:
https://scholarcommons.scu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1184&context=historical-perspectives
Refusal to recognise 1804 Revolution:
Support for the Duvaliers:
https://islandluminous.fiu.edu/part10-slide08.html
US Plundering of Haiti’s Economy
Vietnam war & death toll:
https://www.britannica.com/event/Vietnam-War, https://study.com/academy/lesson/casualties-of-the-vietnam-war-causes-statistics.html, https://historynet.com/vietnam-war/
US humiliation in Vietnam
https://www.counterfire.org/article/has-the-usa-forgotten-the-lessons-of-vietnam/
Iraq war and false claim of weapons of mass destruction:
https://www.sipri.org/commentary/essay/2023/twenty-years-ago-iraq-ignoring-expert-weapons-inspectors-proved-be-fatal-mistake, https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/iraq-findings-conclude-no-weapons-of-mass-destruction-existed-in-iraq, https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna7634313
Iraq war death toll:
https://costsofwar.watson.brown.edu/costs/human, https://www.washington.edu/news/2013/10/15/study-nearly-500000-perished-in-iraq-war/
Libya US-Nato backed invasion & HDI ranking:
https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2011/4/9/libya-after-the-nato-invasion
Libya under Muammar Gaddafi
https://afrolegends.com/2026/02/06/libya-under-muammar-gaddafi/
Libya’s Gaddafi uses loans to flex global muscle
https://www.reuters.com/article/world/libyas-gaddafi-uses-loans-to-flex-global-muscle-idUSJOE7180G4/
Libya’s Great Manmade River Project: Plans and Realities
https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP88T00706R000600520002-0.pdf
Gaddafi outlines African vision
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/8000761.stm
Libya Revolt of 2011
https://www.britannica.com/event/Libya-Revolt-of-2011
Twelve Years Ago NATO Bombed Libya to “Protect Civilians”, Leaving Tens of Thousands Dead and a Country in Ruins
Security Council authorizes ‘all necessary measures’ to protect civilians in Libya
https://news.un.org/en/story/2011/03/369382
Resolution 1973 (2011) / adopted by the Security Council at its 6498th meeting, on 17 March 2011
https://digitallibrary.un.org/record/699777?ln=en
Nato air strikes hit Tripoli in heaviest bombing yet
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/may/24/nato-airstrikes-tripoli-heaviest-bombing-libya
Huge protests in Niger call for French forces to leave after coup
Thousands rally in Burkina Faso in support of military junta following alleged coup attempt
Burkina Faso marks official end of French military operations on its soil
France says its troops have left Mali, remains committed to helping Sahel
Last French troops leave Niger as military cooperation officially ends
Statement from the President of the Confederation of Sahel States (AES) regarding the barbaric and cowardly attack perpetrated in the city of Niamey on the night of January 28-29, 2026
https://gouvernement.ml/2026/01/31/
AES: Defense ministers examine a draft statute for the unified force
Council of Ministers Meeting No. 23 of July 9, 2026
https://gouvernement.gov.bf/conseil-des-ministres/conseil-des-ministres-n23-du-09-juillet-2026/
Processing of mining waste in Burkina Faso: more than 93 kg of gold for the national reserve
Mali adopts new mining code that boosts state interests
Mali creates state-owned company to manage mining holdings
Conclusions of the Council of Ministers of Monday, May 18, 2026
Mali, Burkina and Niger to launch biometric passports under new alliance
Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger’s Withdrawal from ECOWAS is now a reality
https://www.ecowas.int/burkina-faso-mali-and-nigers-withdrawal-from-ecowas-is-now-a-reality/
How the US attack on Venezuela, abduction of Maduro unfolded
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/1/4/how-the-us-attack-on-venezuela-abduction-of-maduro-unfolded
Trump says US to take control of 65bn barrels of Venezuelan oil
https://www.ft.com/content/2f88581f-4fbc-46a2-8127-830bb630c2f2?syn-25a6b1a6=1
Venezuela Earthquake Overview, June 2026
International aid heads to Venezuela after deadly earthquake
Us Sanction Against Iran (August 2026)
https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/sb0613
Trump hopes sanctions will topple Iran’s regime
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cr50n9gnljgo
US Congressman Panetta’s Bill
How the US helped create Al Qaeda and ISIS
https://www.pambazuka.org/how-us-helped-create-al-qaeda-and-isis
Oil cooperation: Niger and China sign several strategic memoranda of understanding
Five key Chinese Belt, Road projects in Africa
https://guardian.ng/news/five-key-chinese-beltroad-projects-in-africa/
FOCAC Action Plans (2025-2027) https://www.mfa.gov.cn/eng/xw/zyxw/202409/t20240905_11485719.html
Interview: China-Africa cooperation sets example for Global South development, says Zimbabwean senior journalist
https://eng.yidaiyilu.gov.cn/p/0SENA7T4.html
China drops tariffs on all African nations except Eswatini
https://www.africanews.com/2026/05/01/china-drops-tariffs-on-all-african-nations-except-eswatini/
Russia-Niger MoU on nuclear energy cooperation
https://world-nuclear-news.org/articles/russia-niger-mou-on-nuclear-energy-cooperation
Russia’s African Corps Foils Militant Coup Attempt in Mali - MoD
Presentation of the flag to the United Forces of the Sahel
Ibrahim Traoré’s Revolutionary Message To Burkinabé Students
In this quote from his keynote address at the inauguration of a new, 1,200-seater lecture hall at Nazi-BONI University in Bobo-Dioulasso, Burkina Faso, on September 11, 2026, Burkinabé President Captain Ibrahim Traoré speaks to Burkinabé students in attendance on the importance of their revolutionary duties, and how these duties far outweigh what they may perceive as their “rights” at this current stage in their nation’s development.
The West has done thorough work, through its media, NGOs and the colonially-imposed educational curricula it left behind in Africa, to convince Africans that the causes of their everyday problems revolve around “corruption”, “democracy” and “human rights”, as opposed to their geopolitical and economic relationship with Western countries.
A very convenient belief — for the West.
Yet all once-impoverished nations in the world that have ever developed – from China to Singapore to Iran to North Korea – developed under leaderships that served nationalist agendas, regardless of how any individuals or groups, external or internal, felt about it.
Leaderships which mandated the masses to put their revolutionary duties above their petty self-interest.
A nation, or continent, which embraces this principle is impossible to corrupt, and therefore, impossible to exploit.
Do you understand?
Sources:
Captain Ibrahim Traoré’s at inauguration of Bobo-Dioulasso Lecture Hall
Youtube/@faso7tv
Traoré Inaugurates New Lecture Hall in Bobo-Dioulasso
https://gouvernement.gov.bf/actualites/inauguration-du-complexe-damphitheatres/
China’s poverty elimination reflects human-centered vision
https://en.people.cn/n3/2025/1121/c90000-20393434.html
Third World to First: How Singapore escaped the poverty trap
https://asiatimes.com/2022/02/third-world-to-first-how-singapore-escaped-the-poverty-trap/
Exploring the Technological and Scientific Advancement of Iran Post-1979 Revolution
https://www.thereporterethiopia.com/49130/
North Korea’s economic growth
https://finance.biggo.com/news/0b87129f-398e-464e-9285-4241f551bf4d
Former Refugee: “I Witnessed Foreign Aid Workers Drop Off G*ns, Alcohol & Dr*gs to Refugees”
Congolese refugee in Botswana Tina Nyambwe (@zawaditina on IG) says she can’t trust the United Nations after all of the human rights violations she witnessed as a child.
Can you blame her? Drop us a comment.
Video credit: @tina.sambo.96 (Facebook)
Sources:
Tina Nyambwe’s Archived Video
Dukwi Refugee Camp
Botswana to relocate 469 asylum seekers to Dukwi Refugee Camp
https://www.sabcnews.com/sabcnews/botswana-to-relocate-469-asylum-seekers-to-dukwi-refugee-camp/
Kwesi Pratt, Jr.: M*ssad Abducted a P*lestinian Under Ghana’s Nose
Kwesi Pratt, Jr. (@kwesiprattjr), general secretary of the Socialist Movement of Ghana (@socialistmovementofghana), told @panafricantv about Isr*el’s audacity to undermine Ghana’s sovereignty by kidnapping Palestinian businessman Mahran Baajour in 2018 on Ghanaian soil, t*rturing him for 35 days in Accra’s Roman Ridge neighbourhood.
Why do you think Isr*el is allowed to get away with human rights violations in Africa? Drop us a comment.
Video credit: @panafricantv (Youtube)
Sources:
“If I had the power, the Isr*eli Ambassador would be in Tel Aviv” - Kwesi Pratt Jnr
Youtube/@PanAfricanTelevision
M*ssad officers believed to have kidnapped and tortured P*lestinian businessman in Ghana
I was tortured in Ghana for 35 days – Lebanese man
AOHR UK: M*ssad is believed to have investigated tortured Baajour
https://english.palinfo.com/o_post/AOHR-UK-Mossad-is-believed-to-have-investigated-tortured-Baajour/
‘Missing’ Lebanese businessman sighted in Lebanon
Israel-US-Iran conflict: Israeli Ambassador calls on Ghana to join campaign against Iran
P*lestinian held in Ghana: ‘I was tortured for 35 days’
https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20190401-palestinian-held-in-ghana-i-was-tortured-for-35-days/
ECOWAS Continues To Betray Africa By Att*cking The AES
From condemning the revolutionary directions of Alliance of Sahel States (AES) member Mali, N*ger and Burkina Faso, to threatening N*ger with a full-on invasion in 2023, to being named as an accomplice in the latest plot to destabilize N*ger this August, the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) continues to prove to the rest of Africa where its true loyalties lie.
Sources:
Creation of AES
Creation of ECOWAS
https://www.ecowas.int/creation-history/
ECOWAS condemns coups in the Sahel
https://www.citinewsroom.com/2025/12/ecowas-condemns-coups-strengthens-regional-security-measures/
ECOWAS threatens Niger with invasion
https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/west-african-army-chiefs-meet-niger-talks-2023-08-17/
Mali and Burkina Faso back Niger amid ECOWAS threats
ECOWAS EU Funding
https://www.ecowas.int/ecowas-launches-e105-million-regional-initiatives-to-strengthen-peace-security-and-economic-integration-in-west-africa-with-support-from-eu-germany-and-spain/, https://www.giz.de/en/regions/africa/nigeria/news/ecowas-spearheads-west-africa-regional-peace-security-and-economic
US builds drone base in Niger
Agadez minerals
https://apanews.net/niger-taking-stock-of-mineral-resources-projects/
Niger revokes France’s concession on Arlit mine
U.S. military completes withdrawal from key drone base in Niger
Niger and Algeria begin oil exploration
https://afrinz.ru/en/2026/08/niger-and-algeria-begin-drilling-kafra-oil-well/
Kafra oil exploration to produce 90000 bpd for Niger & Algeria
Niger names ECOWAS, France as enablers in foiled coup attempt
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