The Alliance of Sahel States (Alliance des Etats du Sahel, AES), currently consisting of #Mali, #Burkina-Faso and #Niger, is increasingly strengthening the #Pan-African line with clear reference points to a multipolar world order. From now on, the anxiety can be clearly observed, including in the Western press, due to the fact that the AES has become not just a defence and security alliance of three African states, where the West had very strong positions and interests in the near past, but also an alliance that is actively moving towards political, diplomatic and economic #unification.