{"id":528926,"date":"2025-05-12T18:46:20","date_gmt":"2025-05-12T16:46:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/benews.fr\/en\/?p=528829"},"modified":"2025-05-12T18:46:20","modified_gmt":"2025-05-12T16:46:20","slug":"sahel-alliance-adopts-official-anthem-to-strengthen-regional-identity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/sahel-alliance-adopts-official-anthem-to-strengthen-regional-identity\/","title":{"rendered":"Sahel Alliance adopts official anthem to strengthen regional identity"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The ministers of culture from <strong>Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger<\/strong> have officially approved the <strong>anthem of the Confederation of the Alliance of Sahel States (AES)<\/strong>, marking a new step in the consolidation of this young regional union, according to Burkina Faso\u2019s national broadcaster RTB on Saturday, May 10.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This decision follows a <strong>competition launched a month earlier<\/strong> to create a unifying musical symbol. The initiative, jointly driven by the three member states, aimed to produce an anthem reflecting core values such as <strong>sovereignty, patriotism, solidarity, fraternity, loyalty, unity, resilience, bravery, hard work<\/strong>, and <strong>endogenous development<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Open to individuals or legal entities from the member countries residing in Burkina Faso, the contest required participants to submit a <strong>harmonized musical score<\/strong>, a <strong>recording<\/strong> (with or without accompaniment), <strong>lyrics<\/strong> in French or an official national language, and a <strong>written explanation<\/strong> of the artistic approach.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Submissions were judged on strict criteria: <strong>originality, aesthetic appeal, clarity, conciseness<\/strong>, and <strong>alignment with AES values<\/strong>. Musically, attention was given to the <strong>quality of melody, harmony, rhythm, cultural roots<\/strong>, and a <strong>maximum duration of two minutes<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Founded in <strong>September 2023<\/strong> as a political and defense alliance, the AES became a <strong>confederation in July 2024<\/strong> after announcing its withdrawal from the <strong>Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS)<\/strong>. Since then, the bloc has introduced several symbolic pillars of unity: a <strong>common passport<\/strong> in January 2025, a <strong>flag and logo<\/strong> in February, and a <strong>joint military force currently in formation<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ministers of culture from Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger have officially approved the anthem of the Confederation of the Alliance of Sahel States (AES), marking a new step in the consolidation of this young regional union, according to Burkina Faso\u2019s national broadcaster RTB on Saturday, May 10. This decision follows a competition launched a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":528961,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_trash_the_other_posts":false,"editor_notices":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"pays":[121,139,143],"personnalite":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-528926","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-policy-news-benews","8":"pays-burkina-faso-west-africa","9":"pays-mali","10":"pays-niger-west-africa"},"acf":{"type_de_publication":"opinion","nom_de_linstitution":"","description_de_linstitution":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528926","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=528926"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528926\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/528961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=528926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=528926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=528926"},{"taxonomy":"pays","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pays?post=528926"},{"taxonomy":"personnalite","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/personnalite?post=528926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}