{"id":6658,"date":"2026-01-09T16:46:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T16:46:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sahelien.com\/en\/?p=6658"},"modified":"2026-04-07T18:26:20","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T18:26:20","slug":"sahel-recap-from-5-to-9-january-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sahelien.com\/en\/sahel-recap-from-5-to-9-january-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Sahel r\u00e9cap\u2019 from 5 to 9 january 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Arrested in July 2025 in C\u00f4te d\u2019Ivoire and prosecuted for \u00aboffense against the Ivorian head of state,\u00bb Mamadou Hawa Gassama, a member of Mali\u2019s National Transitional Council (the legislative body), appeared on Friday, January 9, 2026, before the correctional chamber of the Abidjan-Plateau Court of First Instance.\u2028At the end of the hearing, the prosecutor requested a five-year prison sentence against him.\u2028The court took the case under deliberation, and the ruling will be delivered on January 30, according to his lawyer.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>In Burkina Faso, authorities said on Wednesday that they had foiled yet another \u00abattempt at destabilization\u00bb over the past weekend.\u2028Arrests are underway, and the former transitional president, Lieutenant-Colonel Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba, was named as the \u00ab mastermind.\u00bb<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a0In Niger, authorities paid final respects on Tuesday to Captain Chaibou Mali, the prefect of Torodi, who was assassinated on the night of January 5 at around 2 a.m.\u2028He was killed at his home along with several members of his family during an attack carried out by armed men.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>The Confederation of Sahel States, which brings together Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger, condemned on Thursday, January 8, what it described as \u00abunacceptable interference\u00bb and an \u00abact of aggression\u00bb by the United States in Venezuela, following what it called the \u00abillegal abduction\u00bb of President Nicol\u00e1s Maduro and his wife.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arrested in July 2025 in C\u00f4te d\u2019Ivoire and prosecuted for \u00aboffense against the Ivorian head of state,\u00bb Mamadou Hawa Gassama, a member of Mali\u2019s National Transitional Council (the legislative body), appeared on Friday, January 9, 2026, before the correctional chamber of the Abidjan-Plateau Court of First Instance.\u2028At the end of the hearing, the prosecutor requested [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":6659,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,11,13,16,62],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-6658","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-burkina","8":"category-mali","9":"category-niger","10":"category-politique","11":"category-security"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sahelien.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sahelien.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sahelien.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sahelien.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sahelien.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6658"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sahelien.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6658\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6708,"href":"https:\/\/sahelien.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6658\/revisions\/6708"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sahelien.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sahelien.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sahelien.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sahelien.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}