{"id":528928,"date":"2025-05-12T18:49:18","date_gmt":"2025-05-12T16:49:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/benews.fr\/en\/?p=528835"},"modified":"2025-05-12T18:49:18","modified_gmt":"2025-05-12T16:49:18","slug":"senegal-pape-djibril-fall-calls-for-african-integration-rooted-in-history-and-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/senegal-pape-djibril-fall-calls-for-african-integration-rooted-in-history-and-people\/","title":{"rendered":"Senegal: Pape Djibril Fall calls for African integration rooted in history and people"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In an interview with Afrique Media, Senegalese MP <strong>Pape Djibril Fall<\/strong> emphasized the deep historical and cultural ties between Senegal and the member countries of the <strong>Alliance of Sahel States (AES)<\/strong>, particularly Mali.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThese are more than brotherly peoples \u2014 they are one and the same people,\u201d he stated, stressing the need to build African unity on <strong>human realities<\/strong>, not just economics. According to the lawmaker, colonial-era borders cannot erase the <strong>social bonds<\/strong> that have existed for generations. \u201cSenegalese and Malians studied together, married each other, built families, shared dreams,\u201d he recalled. Even today, thousands of Malians live in Senegal and vice versa \u2014 ties he sees as the foundation of future unity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the face of shared challenges, Fall urged greater coordination among the region\u2019s leaders, who, he noted, belong to the same generation. \u201cThey need to speak to one another with sincerity and transparency,\u201d he said, calling for the <strong>core concerns of the people<\/strong>\u2014employment, security, education, and migration\u2014to be placed at the center of regional discussions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Regarding ECOWAS, Fall voiced criticism of the bloc\u2019s previous functioning, which he described as lacking dialogue with citizens. He called for a <strong>thorough reform<\/strong> of the regional organization so that it truly becomes a \u201c<strong>people\u2019s ECOWAS<\/strong>.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThis is the moment to turn history into strength, rather than an obstacle,\u201d Fall concluded, believing the time has come to <strong>revive the regional integration project<\/strong> based on respect, shared heritage, and a common vision for the future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an interview with Afrique Media, Senegalese MP Pape Djibril Fall emphasized the deep historical and cultural ties between Senegal and the member countries of the Alliance of Sahel States (AES), particularly Mali. \u201cThese are more than brotherly peoples \u2014 they are one and the same people,\u201d he stated, stressing the need to build African [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":528963,"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":[145],"personnalite":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-528928","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-policy-news-benews","8":"pays-senegal-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\/528928","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=528928"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528928\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/528963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=528928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=528928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=528928"},{"taxonomy":"pays","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pays?post=528928"},{"taxonomy":"personnalite","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/personnalite?post=528928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}