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The ECOWAS mediation mission will visit Mali next week to resolve outstanding issues arising from an extraordinary dema meeting for Accra, Ghana.
On Tuesday, the Heads of State and Government of the 15 ECOWAS member states will meet in Ghana on Tuesday to discuss the transition to military overthrow.
But the ECOWAS leaders are unable to reach an agreement on when the military government cedes power to the civilian government, for the sake of that mediation team that must follow.
“We did not reach any agreement with the military junta”, reveals the president of ECOWAS, Nana Akufo-Addo.
Speaking to the press after the meeting, President Akufo-Addo said that “we met face to face with the Malian military leadership and spoke eye to eye … We need civilian leadership of the transition and we made it clear, say the moment dem put that [civilian] leadership instead we will lift the sanctions. “
The ECOWAS president reveals that Mali’s coup leader, Colonel Assimi Goita, who is part of the meeting, agrees to say that upon arriving in Mali, he will begin to participate in the National Committee for the Salvation of the People (CNSP) on how to implement ECOWAS meeting agreements.
Some of the sanctions that ECOWAS considers include the closure of borders, the suspension of funds in Mali, the non-recognition of Mali’s leadership by the member states.
Although the military rule is popular with some people in Mali, West African leaders believe that the coup set a wrong example as the lack of adequacy disrupts peace within the subregion.