Mali: after Assimi Goïta yesterday, the ECOWAS mediation has an appointment with the fallen officials
Mali ,, on May 25, 2021, former President Goodluck Jonathan, ECOWAS mediator in the Malian crisis, is on his way to the Kati military camp where he will meet the authors of the May 23 coup and political leaders deposed by the junta.
REUTERS - AMADOU KEITA
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The mediator of the ECOWAS, Goodluck Jonathan, arrived yesterday, Tuesday May 25 in the afternoon, in Bamako to try to unblock the crisis caused by the new coup by the putschists in August 2020. Discussions were held. started in the evening of yesterday Tuesday, in Bamako, between Goodluck Jonathan and his delegation on one side, and on the other, members of the ex-junta.
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Serge Daniel
The meeting had a solemn side according to a witness.
The vice-president, Colonel Assimi Goïta, spoke for a pro domo plea.
He took up the main lines of his press release published after the arrest of the President of the Transition and his Prime Minister.
He has a string of grievances against them. For example, the fact of not having been consulted before the cabinet reshuffle - which for him constitutes a violation of the transition charter ... He also addressed the question of the social crisis which, still according to him, did not find of solution. And those responsible are President Bah N'Daw and his Prime Minister Moctar Ouane who were placed "
outside their prerogatives
" yesterday, Tuesday 25 May.
After having listened to him attentively, the delegation led by Goodluck Jonathan clearly mentioned the possibility for the institution of the sub-region to take sanctions against, in particular, the military during a forthcoming ad hoc summit of the ECOWAS. The soldiers involved in this latest coup are close to the National Committee for the Salvation of the People, at the origin of the coup of August 18, 2020. The Europeans, who “
condemned with the greatest firmness the arrest of the President of Mali and his Prime Minister
”, according to
President Macron yesterday
, during their summit, could very quickly follow in the taking of sanctions.
This first meeting ended late at night.
And this Wednesday, a meeting is scheduled between the same delegation and the president of the transition and his Prime Minister dismissed yesterday.
Does President Bah Ndaw want to stay in power?
To give up ?
What he says will be decisive for the continuation of the discussions with the military and for a way out of the crisis.
What is the state of mind of the junta officials?
Vice-President Assimi Goïta, head of the ex-junta, has slept very little since Monday, the day of the arrest by his men of the president and his prime minister.
His busy agenda is kept by his closest collaborator, Captain Demba N'Daw, chief of staff with ministerial rank.
It is generally this discreet man who gives him the many foreign personalities who wish to hear from him on the phone.
According to our information, Colonel Assimi Goïta strives to reassure everyone of his intentions: in particular the organization of general elections in 2022 as planned.
Some interlocutors believe it, others are skeptical.
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Two other figures of the ex-junta are very active.
They are the former Minister of Defense, Colonel Sadio Camara and the former Minister of Security Modiko Koné,
ejected from the government during the last reshuffle
.
With Colonel Malick Diaw, president of the National Transitional Council, these officers want to be calm in the face of the situation and united in the face of Malians and the international community.
Civilian advisers provide language for visitors.
These senior officers of the ex-junta like others have another concern, it is to maintain cohesion within the troops.
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