Par Bazona Barnabé Bado
After a closed-door meeting on March 16, 2026, the European deputies, under the instigation of France, issued a statement called a resolution to demand the ‘immediate and unconditional’ release of the former puppet Niger president Mohamed Bazoum.
Military intervention is looming on the horizon.
The meeting, which reeked of the nauseating smell of a certain Berlin conference (November 1884 – February 1885) that divided Africa, officially aimed at the liberation of a salon slave. But in reality, the true purpose of such a gathering is to reconquer the three countries (Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger) of the Confederation of the Alliance of Sahel States (AES) that have decided to turn their backs on France, which had made these countries and many other African countries its cash cow by abusively exploiting their mineral resources for the benefit of France and its allies and to the detriment of African populations.
The reaction of the AES countries, who are keeping a close watch after this resolution, was immediate. They have come forward to denounce what they call the ‘selectivity’ of the European Parliament, arguing that the institution ‘turns a deafening silence to real, illegitimate, blatant, repeated, and continuous violations of international law committed, including the kidnapping of a head of state and the assassination of a religious and spiritual leader,’ referring to the arrest of the Venezuelan president and the assassination of the leader of the Iranian revolution in disregard of international law.
This resolution undoubtedly aims at a military invasion of European countries into the AES countries. The remarks of the French representative Christophe Gomart, who initiated the resolution, are frightening: “Not obtaining the release of president Bazoum before this date (Editor’s note: April 2, which marks the end of Bazoum’s term) would constitute a serious failure,” he declares.
History is still repeating itself before the eyes of Africans and under their complicit silence of the barbarity of the Europeans in Africa. Yesterday, they murdered Thomas Sankara; we said nothing. The next day, they murdered Gaddafi; we were silent. Tomorrow, they want to murder Ibrahim Traoré, Abdourahamane Tchiani, and Assimi Goita. Once again, we are silent like carp.
Dear brothers and sisters of Africa, African diaspora, the situation is serious. We must act now if we want to see a sovereign, dignified, free, and prosperous Africa. If African mineral resources were exploited for the benefit of Africans, we in the African diaspora would never leave our countries. Our brothers, sisters, mothers, fathers, and children perish in the ocean waters while fleeing the misery of their country caused by the mismanagement of resources by certain African leaders in collusion with certain leaders of Europeans countries.
If Europeans loved Africa so much, why haven’t they put an end to terrorism, for example in Mali, where they had sent soldiers supposedly to fight against terrorists who kill thousands of innocent people, they who have the most sophisticated weapons? These terrorists do not know how to make weapons. But who gives them the weapons? Where do their funding sources come from? And who finances them? And why?
Why do they have the means to save one individual in the same country where thousands of innocent people are being massacred by terrorists, and yet remain silent, indifferent to the suffering of these populations?
These questions, each of us must ask ourselves.
Let’s mobilize to counter the military intervention of European countries in the Sahel. If the Sahel falls, Africa will never rise again. This is a call. The call of the African diaspora.