🇬🇳🇲🇱 Mali–Guinea: Guinea and Mali have just signed a military agreement to unite their armed forces in the fight against terrorism and to secure the road linking Bamako to the Port of Conakry.
With Mali having one of the best military in West Africa, this partnership is likely to be beneficial to Guinea.
The Republic of Benin had a choice between Imperialism and African unity, they chose Imperialism, and now Niger made its own choice and have announced the border will remain firmly closed, as it should be.
Every student who passes the baccalaureate in Burkina Faso now goes through something called Immersion Patriotique Obligatoire, a mandatory month long civic training program created by presidential decree under Captain Ibrahim Traoré. The 2026 session runs from July 27 to August 26 across regional capitals nationwide, and it is not optional. Passing it is now a requirement before moving on to university.
The program is not just for new graduates either. It has already expanded down to younger students. In January, over 58000 intermediate level students across the Kadiogo region started a six week version focused on civic values, national symbols, and discipline. Defense and security forces are personally delivering parts of the training.
Officials behind the program are blunt about why it exists. They point to a generation that has grown distant from state authority, careless with national symbols, and disconnected from the country's own history. The goal is to close that gap before it becomes permanent.
This is what sovereignty looks like when it goes past politics and into the classroom. Is this nation building done right, or is it discipline dressed up as patriotism.