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  • 28/11/2024
MEDI1TV Afrique : #LHebdoAfricain / Concertations à Dakar sur la sécurité collective en Afrique, le point avec Bakary Sambe - 27/11/2024

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00:00Let's move on to the Afro-African Ebdo, your Ebdo-Badr meeting in partnership with the Timbuktu Institute every week.
00:19We receive experts on strategic issues for the African continent.
00:25Collective security in Africa, concertations in Dakar.
00:29This is what we are going to talk about today with Dr. Bakari Samb, regional director of the Timbuktu Institute.
00:39Hello Dr. Bakari Samb and thank you for being with us.
00:43Hello and thank you for your invitation.
00:47Dr. Bakari Samb, a high-level meeting on the Noakchott process and the ACRA initiative opened on Monday in Dakar
00:56in order to reflect on better coordination of actions related to security issues in the Sahel region.
01:05What are the issues of such a meeting?
01:09Yes, you know, this high-level meeting was considered by the participants here in Dakar as an important framework for collaboration,
01:18as the officers who were there say, a frank and unbiased collaboration, they said,
01:25to address common threats and defend the common interests of peace, stability and sovereignty in the region.
01:32I think this was also an opportunity to discuss, during this three-day meeting,
01:40the initiative of the Commission of the African Union and the Committee of the African Security Information Services of the CISA
01:46and to commit to collective security and coordinate efforts and mutualize skills and capabilities.
01:56So, do you think that despite the multiplication of such regional initiatives,
02:03tangible progress has been made, especially in the context of the fight against terrorism?
02:11Yes, it is true that the initiatives have multiplied in the region,
02:15with already the Noakchott process, which brings together 11 countries,
02:19including Algeria, Burkina Faso, Ivory Coast, Guinea, Libya, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal and Chad,
02:27but also the Accra initiative, which was launched in 2017 with Ghana, Ivory Coast, Benin, Togo and Burkina Faso.
02:35And I believe that there is a multiplication of these initiatives,
02:38while there is a regional security architecture at the level of the CEDEAO,
02:42which is still today struggling with the question of the IOS,
02:46but also the failure of the regional armies to overcome terrorism.
02:50I believe that there are certainly successes, but today the balance is mixed,
02:54and it will be necessary to reorient the strategies, but above all to mutualize efforts,
02:59to go towards more synergy than discussion of these efforts.
03:04In this context of dissension, even of profound divergence,
03:10especially between the CEDEAO and the countries of the Alliance of States,
03:14do you think that the regional security architecture still has all its relevance?
03:22Yes, this architecture still has all its relevance.
03:24Today, we are paying for the strategic mistakes that consisted of
03:31dissecting and extracting Central Sahel from the rest of West Africa.
03:36We have seen the consequences.
03:38The Central Sahel countries are now trying to be in a form of isolation,
03:42but the realities are the same.
03:44We share them.
03:45The sub-region today is marked and impacted by scourges that affect the stability of different countries,
03:51the stability of institutions, the integrity of territories.
03:54I believe that this is the place to return to a form of orthodoxy,
03:57where there will be a synergy around the architecture of regional security,
04:01supported by the CEDEAO and the African Union,
04:03which today, this last organization, seems to have a crucial role to play,
04:08in particular to federate today the different ensembles,
04:11and go towards a reconciliation and a much stronger and renewed cooperation
04:17between all the countries of the sub-region, including those of the AF and the CEDEAO.
04:23Dr. Bakari Samb, thank you for all these details.
04:28Thank you for answering our questions.
04:30I remind you that you are the Regional Director of the Timbuktu Institute.
04:47For more information, visit www.fema.gov