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  1. “It is a toolkit for the Security Council and for our Governments. We count on the Council to make good use of it and, above all, to implement it.”

    2022-07-07 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9086 (2022) · source

  2. “We therefore need the members of the Security Council to convince our leaders and Governments that all their energy must be spent on better protecting the people. That means that we must stop talking about eradicating terrorists. Instead, we need to eradicate the reasons that drive our young people to take up arms and kill their brothers and sisters. To achieve that, we need to improve governance and access to basic social services. We must continue our fight against stigmatization and impunity, particularly that enjoyed by certain members of own defence and security forces, because that only perpetuates the vicious circle of violence. Our report Sahel: What Has Changed contains specific recommendations for implementing this new response, which places the people at the heart of all decisions.”

    2022-07-07 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9086 (2022) · source

  3. “At the Association Alliance for Peace and Security, we strengthen the capacities of female teachers, preachers and traditional leaders on issues of social cohesion and the prevention and fight against violent extremism. We are convinced that it is through dialogue and mediation that we will succeed in bringing peace to our countries — not through arms or sanctions that weaken already suffering populations. I am delighted that the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) lifted the sanctions that were hitting the brotherly and sisterly populations of Mali hard — a decision worthy of what we call the “ECOWAS of the people”. In the Sahel, we truly feel left to our own devices.”

    2022-07-07 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9086 (2022) · source

  4. “At the moment, they are barely involved, if at all. Take the example of my country, the Niger, in which there are eight regions with eight governors — all men. One of the measures of the state of emergency is the curfew decreed in four of its regions. That means that a pregnant woman who goes into labour during the curfew can access a health centre only with great difficulty. I think that a female governor would be more sensitive about that issue. In addition, the parliamentarians who voted for the state of emergency are renewing it without a real evaluation of its impact on civilians, in general, and on women in particular.”

    2022-07-07 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9086 (2022) · source

  5. “To do things differently is therefore to ask what we most urgently invest in — in a mainly military response, the limits of which are now clearly visible, in the education of our children, who no longer go to school because of the conflict, or in our health facilities, which are either closed or increasingly empty due to a lack of medicines or health workers? Our motto at the Association Alliance for Peace and Security is “Without young people, there can be no lasting peace. Without women, there can be no real peace.” I congratulate Brazil for its commitment to the women and peace and security agenda, because women are among the first victims of conflict. But in truth, they are not only victims, but they are also part of the solution if they participate and have access to decision-making processes.”

    2022-07-07 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9086 (2022) · source

  6. “It means putting the protection of the population at the heart of any response to the security crisis in these three countries. Some time ago, we saw our President announce that he had bought helicopters from Türkiye to fight terrorists and secure the country. That is, of course, reassuring from a military point of view. However, as a history and geography teacher in Niamey, I am saddened every day to see my students attending classes without a desk and chair. For most of our classes, pupils have to sit on canvas bags.”

    2022-07-07 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9086 (2022) · source

  7. “We will soon be in the lean season between two harvests, and 10 million people are reported to be food insecure in the Sahel — 60 per cent more than last year. Many people of goodwill are mobilizing to help us, including the members of the Security Council, which we thank for their efforts. However, we must admit that it is not enough. We will therefore have to start doing things differently. Otherwise, we will face multidimensional problems. We have been saying this for years, but no one has wanted to listen to us. That is why we created the People’s Coalition for the Sahel, which brings together more than 50 civil society organizations from the region so that our voice is heard more loudly and where it is needed. My presence here today is proof that we are finally beginning to be heard. What does it mean to do things differently?”

    2022-07-07 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9086 (2022) · source

  8. “In our three countries, eight civilians are killed every day, on average, due to terrorism-related violence. In Mali, Burkina Faso and the Niger, there is a lot of talk about the rise in power of our armies. However, we are also helplessly witnessing the exponential rise in the massacre of civilian populations. Over the past year, the number of civilians killed by armed extremist groups doubled. On a positive note, the number of abuses attributed to defence and security forces has fallen by 11 per cent, although it is still too high. In any case, every massacre leads to more people on the road. Those people will no longer have access to their land for farming, which is their main activity.”

    2022-07-07 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9086 (2022) · source

  9. “Let me thank Brazil for this invitation to the Citizens’ Coalition for the Sahel. In January, it was my Burkinabé sister, Cécile Yougbaré of Médecins du Monde, who was here to bring our call for a radical change of strategy in the Sahel in order to better take into account the needs of the populations (see S/PV.8944). Now, six months later, the situation has greatly deteriorated for women, children and all civilians in my country, the Niger, as well as in Burkina Faso and Mali — the three countries in the central Sahel that are most affected by the conflict. Today we heard a bleak picture from His Excellency Mr. Mahamat Saleh Annadif and the other briefer. Let me add some data from the progress report of the People’s Coalition for the Sahel that we just published last month in Dakar.”

    2022-07-07 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9086 (2022) · source