Episode 40: The Alliance of Sahel States: A New Challenge to ECOWAS with Rida Lyammouri

In this week's episode, our topic is on 'The Alliance of Sahel States: A New Challenge to ECOWAS'. This is a part two to Episode 16 that focused on coups and the newly established Alliance of Sahel States (AES). Our guest this week is Rida Lyammouri, Senior Fellow at the Policy Center for the New South (PCNS). Rida provides a rich assessment of the AES and its trajectory and relationship (or challenge) to the main regional bloc, ECOWAS.