Are Mali and ECOWAS moving towards an imminent agreement?

According to well-informed sources, the two partners are now ready to make concessions,

in order to smooth out their positions.

In the days to come, an extraordinary summit of ECOWAS will be organized to seal the said agreement which will occur after yet another trip by the mediator Good Luck Jonathan to Bamako.

(…) Mali and the West African sub-regional organization have every interest in urgently reaching a compromise,

The Pelican.

But for that, shouldn't Mali compress the duration of the transition by 24 months to bring it closer to the maximum of 16 months desired by ECOWAS?

It is certainly the sine qua non condition to move the lines so that this crisis, which has lasted too long, can be evacuated.

So strongly this agreement between the West African sub-regional organization and Mali! 

Le Nouveau Réveil,

it has endorsed the thirty-six months proposed or decided by the authorities of the Burkinabè transition.

 between Mali and Burkina Faso, who needs the most time to complete its transition?

Which of these two countries is in the most complicated and complex situation?

If we give 36 months to Burkina Faso, how many months does it take for Mali to also resolve its problems when we know that today, in terms of insecurity, to take just this example, Mali is in a situation of three or four or even five times more complex than that experienced by Burkina Faso?

ECOWAS is becoming more radical

The ECOWAS seems to be part of a posture of revenge against Mali,

By adopting this radical attitude with the Malian authorities, the Heads of State of the sub-regional organization, who call themselves Republicans and Democrats, thus willingly decide to go against the will of the majority of the Malian people. 

 Lieutenant-Colonel Paul Henri Sandaogo Damiba had set his case at 36 months and now ECOWAS wants to thwart his plans (with a duration of 12 to 16 months).

(…) It is reasonable to think,

L'Observateur Paalga,

that the tenant of the Kosyam palace will opt for the second possibility, if only to spare the Burkinabè from the heavy sanctions under which their Malian neighbor is already subject and, as personnel, so as not to ruin the relative capital of sympathy which the country enjoys with the sub-regional body.

increased offensive actions to search for and destroy terrorists.

we wonder if the Malian authorities, who we know are at odds with the former colonial power that is France for reasons well known to all, are not in a logic of obsessing over numbers in order to imply that there are results on the counter-terrorism front.

If the fact that the army, opening fire on everything that moves, flies from blunder to blunder, not to say from victory to victory;

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it is to be feared that at the rate things are going, certain communities which already claim to be victims of stigmatization, do not feel targeted with all the risks of radicalization that go with it.

However, Mali has suffered so much that it no longer needs that,

Le Pays.

Rather, today it needs the union of all its sons and daughters to regain its rightful place in the concert of nations.