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The community of West African states announced Tuesday the lifting of sanctions on Mali, putting an end to the embargo that had been weighing on the country since the August 18 coup d’état against President Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta. The declaration of the Heads of State and Government of the Economic Community of West African States […]
The Malian junta for the first time officially stated, at a news conference Wednesday, that it was in favor of a military-led transition. This was the first time they’ve revealed their ambition officially. The military, which seized power on August 18 in Bamako, are rather close to the ideas of the fringe of the population […]
The ruling junta in Mali traveled to Accra on Tuesday, September 15, to meet with the delegation of ECOWAS Heads of State. Objective: to convince the West African regional organization to lift economic sanctions and to accompany the transition in the country. But no agreement came out of the meeting. After a closed-door meeting that […]
Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari urged his peers to “resist the temptation” to stay in power “beyond the constitutional provisions”, saying such attempts are likely to create instability at a time when the sub-region faces major social and economic challenges. This was during his address to the 57th Summit of the ECOWAS held on September 7 […]
The heads of state of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) were once again at Mali’s bedside on September 7 during their 57th Ordinary Session, held in Niamey, Niger. ECOWAS issued an ultimatum to the military junta, which ousted President Ibrahim Boubacar on August 18, following weeks of protests in the country, urging […]
President Akufo-Addo of Ghana has been elected as the new Chairman of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) at the grouping’s 57th Summit that took place Monday in Niamey, capital of Niger. The Ghanaian President, who takes over from President Mahamadou Issoufou of Niger, underlined in his acceptance speech the challenges confronting West […]
ECOWAS will gradually withdraw its intervention force in Guinea-Bissau. A first group has already left Bissau on August 27. It consists of 130 men mainly from the Togolese Special Forces who arrived in Guinea-Bissau in November 2019 to reinforce the sub-regional contingent stationed in Bissau since 2012. The other ECOWAS troops, notably Nigerians, Senegalese and […]
At the end of a weekend of discussions, ECOWAS and the putschists in power in Bamako agreed to turn the page on Ibrahim Boubacar Keita. Discussions will continue on the three-year transition as proposed this Monday, August 24 by the putschists. The junta, which has been in power in Mali since it overthrew President Ibrahim […]
The leaders of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) announced the immediate dispatch of a high-level delegation to Bamako for the return of constitutional order, as well as a series of measures. ECOWAS calls for the immediate release of Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta and officials, and above all the restoration of the Head of […]
The mission of the five West African Heads of State led by the current President of ECOWAS, Mahamadou Issoufou of Niger, ended on Thursday evening, without any breakthrough. Muhammadu Buhari, Mahamadou Issoufou, Alassane Ouattara, Nana Akufo-Addo and Macky Sall failed to get the Malian opposition to accept their plan to get the country out of […]