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NEWS: Mali junta set the stage for lifting of ECOWAS Sanction

Last updated on September 11th, 2021 at 08:22 am

Mali’s junta has removed a major obstacle to the lifting of ECOWAS sanctions.

On Thursday it took out a major prerogative devolved to their transition leader who is supposed to bring civilians back to power in the country.

The soldiers who overthrew President Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta on August 18 have renounced that Colonel Assimi Goïta, can replace the civilian president in the transition.

The junta here accedes to a primordial demand of the Community of West African States (ECOWAS) to lift the sanctions imposed on Mali on August 20, foremost among which is a commercial and financial embargo.

– The development has been welcomed

– A representative of the ECOWAS in Mali, Hamidou Boly, indicated shortly before the confirmation of the concession that the sanctions could be lifted quickly.

“Maybe in the hours or days to come, as soon as the charter is published, we will lift the sanctions,” he told UN radio in Mali, Mikado FM.

The junta analysts say is worried about the effect of the sanctions on a country in the grip of a deep economic slump,

The soldiers whose putsch ended months of political protest fueled by the exasperation of Malians pledged to return power to civilians after a transitional period of 18 months.

(AFP)

Albert Echetah

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