The Heads of State of Cédéao have decided to close their borders with the country and to suspend any commercial transition waiting for a new electoral calendar. The junta in power relasre to organize elections.
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Strong hitting hoping that the violence of the go brings the cheek to better intentions. It is essentially the strategy adopted, Sunday, January 9, by the Heads of State of West Africa to compel Colonel Assimi Goïta, the leader of the Malian Juntus, and his transitional government to give way to the place to A president elected much faster than they hear.
Constantious in Accra, the Ghanaian capital, for an eighth summit devoted to Mali since the coup d’état of August 2020, the presidents and representatives of the member countries of the Economic Community of West African States (Cédéao) have indeed strengthened the sanctions already taken in December against the authorities of Bamako. Among the battery of new measures announced “with immediate application”: the closure of land and air boundaries with Mali; the suspension of any commercial transaction, with the exception of essential products, drugs, petroleum products and electricity, and the gel of Mali assets at the Central Bank of West African States in All commercial banks in the region.
If its “gradual” lifting is conditioned at “the finalization and implementation of an acceptable and approved timeline”, this diplomatic ban and under-blocking to allow a return to the constitutional order appeared as inexorable . The last regional tour of the head of the Malian diplomacy to try to tear the clemency of his neighbors or the last minute offer of Assimi Goïta, in order to “maintain dialogue and good cooperation with Cédéao”, of Putting out his power to an elected president in four years rather than in five, have been of no effect. The heads of state have in their communiqué judged “totally unacceptable” the schedule proposed to them at the end of December 2021, believing that it “simply means that an illegitimate military transition government will take hostage the Malian people during the five Next years. “
The choice of words is not trivial in a region that believed ridden of putschs and who saw in less than eighteen months two young officers overturning old presidents “elected” in Mali and Guinea. It reflects as much the will of the presidencies of West Africa to discern as soon as possible this return of the military on the political scene that their particular exasperation at the place of the leader of the Malian junta and the surrounding government. ” / p>
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