TY - BOOK AU - Loada,Augustin TI - The sovereignty of the Sahelian state tested by the security challenge: The case of Burkina Faso PY - 2025///. N1 - 15 N2 - This paper seeks to explain the reasons behind the rhetoric of sovereignty observed in the central Sahel states led by military-civilian juntas, through the example of Burkina Faso. It shows that these juntas, after pledging to bring about brief periods of democratic transition, subsequently turned sovereignty into a political weapon for the conservation and absolutist exercise of state power, thus breaking, on the geopolitical level, with Western powers and democratic values UR - https://shs.cairn.info/journal-afrique-contemporaine-2024-2-page-209?lang=en&redirect-ssocas=7080 ER -