Conflicts and Unconstitutional Changes of Government in Africa Is there still a role for

recommendations based on the analysis of the think-tanks involved in the project but also on the discussions of two closed- Coupled with the increasing presence of Russia in the Sahel, door meetings organised in Brussels and Dakar in October and the EU faced challenges in implementing its foreign and November 2023. [...] This cooperation Africa”3 and the AU initiative “Silencing the Guns”.4 But in was then reaffirmed during the AU-EU Summit in Abidjan the last couple of years, the introduction of the European in 2017 and enshrined in the 2018 Memorandum of Peace Facility (EPF) and the increasing competition Understanding (MoU) signed by the two institutions.1 between external actors on the African continent soured. [...] The aim of the organization, created in 1975 is to promote cooperation and integration, leading to the establishment of an economic union in West Africa in order to raise the living standards of its peoples, and to maintain and enhance economic stability, foster relations-among Member States and contribute to the progress and development of the African continent. [...] Several African governments management of the pandemic and access to vaccines, struggled to finance the pandemic and service their international reaction to the War in Ukraine, and more debts, endangering their credit rating.45 Furthermore, this recently the war in Gaza – all are exposing the difference particular crisis has highlighted the fact that the Sahel between the ‘West’ and the ‘rest’ whe. [...] In this perspective the AU and the The latest military coups have demonstrated the incapacity EU should act together to push for the removal of economic of the regional organisations to deter potential putsches – sanctions on Niger that are straining the population, rather despite its commitment to support good governance, the rule than the military junta.