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[–] ghost_of_faso2@lemmygrad.ml 53 points 4 months ago (2 children)

The "Confederation of Sahel States", which will use the acronym AES,

[–] QueerCommie@lemmygrad.ml 38 points 4 months ago

I support AES and AES.

[–] cfgaussian@lemmygrad.ml 27 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Plagiarism! That's our acronym!

[–] freagle@lemmygrad.ml 30 points 4 months ago

Based

[–] ExotiqueMatter@lemmygrad.ml 27 points 4 months ago

Panafrican federation!!

[–] Idliketothinkimsmart@lemmygrad.ml 24 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I feel like this definitely had to play a part in the US decision to get out of Niger

[–] Azarova@hexbear.net 21 points 4 months ago

iirc, they were directly told to fuck off by the new government

[–] queermunist@lemmy.ml 24 points 4 months ago

👀 👀 👀 👀 👀 👀 👀

[–] bennieandthez@lemmygrad.ml 24 points 4 months ago

a beacon of hope in africa

[–] deathtoreddit@lemmygrad.ml 12 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

It's not a confederation, exactly, more like an alliance (in translation)

Alliance des Etats du Sahel...

[–] cfgaussian@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Well...yes, but this is the language that all the news articles use that i've seen on this so far.

[–] deathtoreddit@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 4 months ago

They all speak Englsh... the AES term only comes from Frnc**s...