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[-] ghost_of_faso2@lemmygrad.ml 53 points 4 months ago

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!!

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

a beacon of hope in africa

[-] Idliketothinkimsmart@lemmygrad.ml 24 points 4 months ago

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

👀 👀 👀 👀 👀 👀 👀

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

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

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...

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