
Their alliance is literally called AES
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alliance_of_Sahel_States
Traore is definitely socialist. The other leaders of Mali and Niger I believe are moreso anti-imperialists more broadly (something akin to Nasser in Egypt, or Gadaffi in Libya)
This is why you keep a tight collar on the “middle class faction” and purge the ones who need it. If Evo had set a proper chain of command and democratic centralist structure for MAS they liberals couldn’t have slowly taken control in their slow way.