Lifting of ECOWAS sanctions: “The ball is in the court of the military juntas”. Paul-Simon Handy, director of the East Africa regional office of the Institute for Security Studies, affirms on the contrary.

Handy: Can these three countries really exist within the Alliance of Sahel States that they created? An alliance out of spite, which has no real political project, which is a somewhat frightened reaction to what they consider to be, wrongly, an injustice on the part ofECOWAS.