Mali: the new authorities hope for a rapid lifting of the ECOWAS embargo

The new interim president of Mali Bah N'Daw (r.) And the new vice-president, Colonel Assimi Goïta in Bamako, Mali, September 25, 2020. REUTERS / Amadou Keita

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It has been a month and a half that the economic sanctions of the ECOWAS weigh on Bamako.

This Thursday, the junta gave new pledges to the West African organization.

The transition charter has been made public and the prerogatives of the transitional vice-president, Colonel Assimi Goïta, leader of the August 18 putschists, are limited.

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With our correspondent in Bamako

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At the heart of Malian power,

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ECOWAS did not want to hear, in the transition charter, of a possibility for the vice-president to one day replace the president.

It's done,

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So in principle, there are no more obstacles to lifting the embargo.

The president of Ghana, current president of the Economic Community of West African States, Nana Akufo-Addo, according to our information, was this Friday afternoon in telephone consultation with his peers.

But sometimes the devil is still in the details: the ECOWAS had also asked for the dissolution of the junta.

It is not yet done.

In any case, all eyes are on Accra and Abuja, seat of the ECOWAS Commission.

And in Bamako, we are counting a lot on the rapid lifting of the embargo, which has been in force for a month and a half and which is particularly plaguing the Malian economy.

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