Jamilah Conteh Speaks — Friday, September 18, 2026. AES dignity-first border cooperation, and a diaspora repatriation pilot linking the Caribbean to Ethiopia.
Hello and welcome to Soul Journey of Life. I’m Jamilah Conteh, keeping minds shining bright.
Across the Sahel, Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger took a dignity-first step this week. In Ouagadougou on September sixteenth, their territorial administration ministers adopted an additional protocol to the AES Confederation treaty on cross-border cooperation, plus a governors’ consultation framework and roadmap. The aim is clear: turn border zones into spaces of security, solidarity, and shared development—not vulnerability—so communities facing common challenges can coordinate humanitarian and local progress together.
And from Bridgetown: at CARICOM’s Third Regional Conference on Reparations, advocates presented a Jamaica–Ethiopia pilot to help Rastafari and other Caribbean people resettle with legal rights, land access, and livelihood support—linking the diaspora to Shashamane and calling for a CARICOM–African Union working group.
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Sources & further reading
- FASSO ACTU — AES cross-border cooperation framework (17 Sep 2026)
- Minute.bf / aBamako / APO Africa Newsroom — AES Ouagadougou protocol & roadmap (16–17 Sep 2026)
- Barbados Today — Jamaica–Ethiopia repatriation proposal at CARICOM reparations conference (17 Sep 2026)
- CARICOM — SG Carla Barnett opening remarks, Third Regional Conference on Reparations (17 Sep 2026)
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