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COMMUNIQUE FROM THE CONFEDERATION OF SAHEL STATES (AES) REGARDING THE VIOLATION OF CONFEDERAL AIRSPACE
The Confederation of Sahel States informs the public that an aircraft belonging to the Air Force of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, of type C130, was forced to land today, December 8, 2025, in Bobo Dioulasso, Burkina Faso, following an in-flight emergency, while it was operating in Burkinabe airspace. The military aircraft had on board two (02) crew members and nine (09) passengers, all military personnel. An investigation was immediately opened by the relevant Burkinabe authorities, revealing that this military aircraft did not have authorization to fly over Burkinabe territory. The Confederation of Sahel States strongly condemns this violation of its airspace and the sovereignty of its member states.

In response to this hostile act carried out in disregard of international law and the international civil and/or military aviation regulations, measures have been taken to ensure the safety of the confederal airspace, the sovereignty and territorial integrity of its member states, as well as the safety of the populations of the AES Confederation. In this regard, and under the instructions of the Heads of State, the air and anti-air defenses of the confederal airspace, placed on maximum alert in accordance with the Declaration of the College of Heads of State dated December 22, 2024, have been authorized to neutralize any aircraft that violates confederal airspace.

id4sho:
Watery beans for our soldiers, Tinubu will go and deal with that Traore boy

illicit:
I smell a rat, why will 9 officers lump theirselves in a plane to burkina asshol whatever

do u know what 9 nigerian officers mean? i smell jubril sudan shit here

FreeStuffsNG:
I am not sure that you comprehend the report.

The soldiers were not on combat mission and probably routine ECOWAS patrol with no previous hostile notice given by Burkina Faso because we are not at war with them. The impostor coupist is apprehensive for obvious reasons that Nigeria can dislodge him from power.

Burkina Faso will not dare face Nigeria and ECOWAS for obvious reasons. They have been at the magnanimity of ECOWAS countries on humanitarian grounds. Nigeria still bailed out Niger recently with about 400 tankers of fuel when they got stranded. Burkina Faso, Mali are impoverished and landlocked, and like Niger, still using sea ports of ECOWAS countries to recieve everything they depend on and even export.

If this report is true, I will not be surprised if our aircraft and soldiers are already home.

They don’t want the Benin experience from Nigeria and the rest of ECOWAS.

It's nice to know that ECOWAS is now taking the fight to them after Benin.

esnbrutality:
That writeup was very direct and was not hard to comprehend. Is understanding an issue for you? Anyway it's normal with Tinubu supporters.

In summary...

Your airline violated airspace without informing the host nation of it's intended flight path. They forced it to land and your plane and soldiers are in captivity.

Is that not simple to understand?

The question you should ask is this...

What are these soldiers doing in the Sahel
Who gave the go ahead for the departure.
Who were they going to meet?
What was the purpose of the trip

As regards your hubris concerning recon. You can't violate a countries airspace, when it's obvious the country is Not your friend. To these countries ECOWAS is DEAD.

Go school ..na IGBO obsession no make you know book

Yankee101:
Release them before Nigerian trips get deployed to the entire region
We may not be eeefetively fighting inside banditary due to political considerations but I can assure we we are capable and will fight any outside unwarranted and unwelcome aggression

Ask Sierral Leone and Liberia

stanluiz:
U don finish am

stanluiz:
What will be the fate of those soliders ? Tinubu is using Nigeria military to protect France interest in West Africa.

Horus:
Last week Burkina Faso’s government has decided to reintroduce the death penalty for treason, terrorism and espionage.

Now you know what will be the fate of those Nigerians soldiers

fergie001:
From the

Done in Bamako, December 8, 2025

Army General Assimi GOITA

President of the Transition,

Head of State of the Republic of Mali

President of the Confederation of Sahel States (AES)

Horus:
Translation from French to English

esnbrutality:
Valid point..but I beg to differ.

What makes you think that those men weren't going to for a mission to realign with their contemporaries, who want TINUBU out?

A C130 plane is not stealth in nature and it's very clumsy for recon duties if need be

Anyway...I just pity those that believe propaganda can whitewash failure.

Interesting times ahead.

stanluiz:
What will be the fate of those soliders ? Tinubu is using Nigeria military to protect France interest in West Africa.

Horus:
Unfortuneltly what I think or you think is irrelevant, what matter is what the military of the Confederation of Sahel States thinks or believe.

The Confederation of Sahel States has the right to seize the Nigerian military aircraft and its equipment as war booty, which means they can

use it or study its technology and attempt to reverse-engineer or exploit any intelligence or technological secrets it contains.

garykoeman:
Fake news.

Copy and paste with no source.

esnbrutality:
After aborting Coup in Benin Republic, now Sahel men that are known desert warriors don hold NIGERIA plane and personnel.

How C130 go leave NIGERIA and Chief of Air Staff doesn't know? Who moved that plane?

Anyway, wetin concern me..

The coup was not aborted by Nigeria but Benin loyalist army