Mali expels representative of Cédéao

Burkinabé Hamidou Boly diplomat was declared “persona non grata” for “inconsistent acts” with its status.

Le Monde with AFP

The Mali declared “persona non grata” the special representative of the Economic Community of West African States (Cédéao) Hamidou Boly, for “inconsistent acts” with his status, announced Monday, October 25 television. public. The diplomat of Burkinabé nationality “is 72 hours to leave” the country, affirms the headband broadcast on the ORTM, without specifying the reproaches made to it.

This deportation decision intervenes “after several warnings addressed to the person concerned through his hierarchy,” simply indicates the department who “reiterates the government’s availability [Malian] to maintain the dialogue with Cédéao and to work Together for the success of the transition “.

” Firm message “of Cédéao

The announcement of the Government of Mali takes place in a delicate diplomatic context, while the junta in power in Mali after two successive putschs in August 2020 and May 2021 poses more and more clearly its willingness to postpone the presidential and legislative elections , to allow a return to a civil power, polls whose CEDAO requires the holding on the date.

Ghana President Nana Akufo-Addo, Chairman of the Conference of Heads of State of Cédaea, visiting 17 October in Mali, issued at the power to power a “firm message” on the holding of ‘elections in February 2022, AFP said a member of his delegation.

/Media reports.