The NEW African Country Nobody Likes (Sahel Confederation)

Would you like to see the Sahel Confederacy succeed, or no?

I hope it not only succeeds but the name "Alliance of Sahel States" catches on, because the acronym for that one is pretty good

I'm an Ethiopian, and only governments don't like it for political reasons, otherwise we, the common people, feel good about it

Last time I was this early Mansa Musa was wrecking local economies with his generosity.

Wake up, babe, new country just dropped!

It is weird to see Ferb in a militant uniform.

The anti French part is very understandable cause their past

Africa has been in a place where they could use some sort of re-organization for a long time but it remains to be seen if this is more anti-colonial or anti-democratic.

When you stated that nobody liked this "because it was anti-French", I laughed and expected a very different opinion in the comments: this is probably a reason to like it for a lot of people, and I'm saying that as a French. France's neo-colonialist policies suck, as do all colonialist and neo-colonialist policies, and I won't cry for the loss of French influence in Africa, which is long overdue. Still not a fan of military juntas backed by Russia, though... Hopefully these countries will achieve full and real independance and democracy, by themselves.

Duolingo: French or get hit by a wrench Sahel: No French or get hit by a wrench

One thing that wasn't mentioned was the extent to which France was exploiting the Sahel Region for its resources. France was often paying less than 10% than what the resources were actually worth, particularly for Uranium.

As a Nigerian our government may dislike this due to them leaving ECOWAS (which is basically just Nigeria Ghana and Ivory Coast and friends) but I support their movement 😅

From where I am (born and raised in England but also having Nigerian citizenship), this is an interesting development in sub- Saharan Africa, and one which hopefully will lead to real improvements in the countries involved. I am quite aware that the Nigerian government has denounced the juntas, but I'm not sure they'll actually take military action, so perhaps in the next few years the animosity might die out.

As a Nigerian i feel like most West Africans that are actually educated on this topic are rooting for the sahel states, meanwhile the governments are against

I definitely think this is a good thing - France always seems so innocent until you actually look into their actions. Kinda glad that their dominions are finally breaking away

“Nobody likes” I mean I think only the French has a problem with this 😂

They are no longer colonies. They should decide their own fates.

From Tanzanian, I love it!

On Googles list of proposed state Mergers, they have these countries listed to form the Sahel Federation, with Guinea also listed as invited to join. I'm interested to see it become an entirely new country, since there hasn't been any geopolitical changes in the world since South Sudan became independent back in 2011.

I am am normally a big fan of your videos but it feels incredibly pro neoliberal colonialism. You completely gloss over the anti-colonial sentiments and the BACKGROUND of france's exploitation of natural resources, corruption scandals etc and just sweep it under the category of Russias influence (not saying it doesn't exist, it's just not a mutually exclusive).