{"id":36207,"date":"2025-01-07T11:24:11","date_gmt":"2025-01-07T10:24:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/?p=36207"},"modified":"2025-07-14T12:13:21","modified_gmt":"2025-07-14T10:13:21","slug":"the-new-military-governments-in-africa-are-they-promoting-a-culture-of-peace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/?p=36207","title":{"rendered":"The new military governments in Africa: Are they promoting a culture of peace?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Burkina2-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Burkina2-1-300x192.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"192\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-36208\" srcset=\"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Burkina2-1-300x192.jpg 300w, https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Burkina2-1-768x492.jpg 768w, https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Burkina2-1.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>A good approach to the <a href=\"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/?p=3134\">problem of islamic extremism <\/a> has been described by General Djibril Bassol\u00e9 from Burkina Faso: privileging dialogue over military confrontation.<\/p>\n<p>In the case of the new military government in <a href=\"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/?p=36185\">Burkina Faso<\/a>, it seems that they are following General Bassole&#8217;s advice. As for <a href=\"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/?p=36188\">Niger<\/a>, it seems that they continue the dialogue approach of <a href=\"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/?p=30341\">the government that preceded the military coup<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>In the case of Mali, it seemed at one point that they would also follow his  General Bassole&#8217;s advice. See the CPNN articles of  <a href=\"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/?p=34562\">April <\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/?p=34836\">May 2024<\/a> .  But as of the end of 2024, they had taken the military route instead, leading to <a href=\"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/?p=36203\">atrocities against the civilian population<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Here are the CPNN articles on this subject:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/?p=36712\">Burkina Faso: The 5th edition of the \u201cAmbassadors of Peace Awards\u201d will take place on August 1, 2025, with a series of activities<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/?p=36706\">Niger: Agadez Mobilizes Its Traditional Chiefs for Peace<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/?p=36203\">Letter from Mali: a plea for peace<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/?p=36188\">Diffa, Niger: The COSNA\/CNSP regional coordination organizes a cultural evening to support youth for peace and social cohesion<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/?p=36185\">Burkina Faso: Living together: Traditional and religious leaders speak to their communities<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/?p=34836\">The Inter-Malian Dialogue for Peace and National Reconciliation<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/?p=34562\">On the road to lasting peace in Mali: \u201cA mother hen must reunite her chicks\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A good approach to the problem of islamic extremism has been described by General Djibril Bassol\u00e9 from Burkina Faso: privileging dialogue over military confrontation. In the case of the new military government in Burkina Faso, it seems that they are following General Bassole&#8217;s advice. As for Niger, it seems that they continue the dialogue approach &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/?p=36207\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The new military governments in Africa: Are they promoting a culture of peace?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[85],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-d-disarmament"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36207"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36207\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36209,"href":"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36207\/revisions\/36209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}