# Traoré signs the Liptako-Gourma Charter establishing the Alliance of Sahel States Date: 2023 ## The fact On 16 September 2023 [Ibrahim Traoré](/people/ibrahim-traore) signed the Liptako-Gourma Charter with [Assimi Goïta](/people/assimi-goita) and [Abdourahamane Tiani](/people/abdourahamane-tiani), establishing AES collective defence. Mali circulated a certified copy as S/2023/695. ## Context He signed as interim president. Assimi Goïta is live. Tiani is unresolved. 16 September signing; UN circulation as S/2023/695. Stored as one 16 September 2023 Fact. Keep Traoré signs the Liptako-Gourma Charter establishing the Alliance of Sahel States on 2023-09-16 separate from neighbouring coup, AES, and ECOWAS instruments. The interim president of Burkina Faso is head of state and commander-in-chief. He can announce a coup on television, take an oath, and sign a charter. He does not write a UN document as if he were the Secretariat, and he does not invent a unique jihadist death integer here. ## Evidence and sources United Nations Security Council carries the official instrument or communique. Reuters records the same dated act independently. ## Significance The path is the owned junta-AES driver: a completed junta mutual-defence charter. ## What is established and what is not Established: He signed the Liptako-Gourma Charter on 16 September 2023. S/2023/695 circulates the certified text. Not established: A unique later combat integer, or that Tiani is a minted Person row. What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, a later repeal, a court that vacated the instrument, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions. The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit. Goïta and Tiani signed. Sharing signatures is not a reason to drop 16 September 2023 from his file.. A later repeal, court stay, or successor order would be a different Fact with a different date. That pair identifies Traoré signs the Liptako-Gourma Charter establishing the Alliance of Sahel States, not a later speech about Traoré signs the Liptako-Gourma Charter establishing the Alliance of Sahel States. Co-authors and later implementers named in Context remain on the file. Traoré signs the Liptako-Gourma Charter establishing the Alliance of Sahel States on 2023-09-16 is not a licence to treat every later United Nations Security Council communique as this same act. If a later repeal, stay, or successor instrument exists, it needs its own date and its own row. This dossier refuses to average Traoré signs the Liptako-Gourma Charter establishing the Alliance of Sahel States into a personality. The contribution described on this Person row is limited to He signed. Goïta and Tiani signed. Sharing signatures is not a reason to drop 16 September 2023 from his file. That limit is the alternative to treating office-holding as authorship of every later series. ## People - Ibrahim Traoré: https://factrail.ai/people/ibrahim-traore ## Drivers - Traoré junta and AES: https://factrail.ai/drivers/traore-junta-aes ## Sources - https://crisisgroup.org/sites/default/files/crisiswatch/CrisisWatch-September-2023-Africa_2.pdf - https://www.voanews.com/a/mali-niger-and-burkina-faso-sign-sahel-security-pact-/7271405.html - https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/mali-niger-burkina-faso-sign-sahel-security-pact-2023-09-16/ - https://undocs.org/S/2023/695 ## Methodology https://factrail.ai/methodology Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/bf-traore-aes-2023