Sanctions of the ECOWAS in Mali: the Prime Minister of the transition and almost all of his government among 149 targeted personalities

Malian Transitional Prime Minister Choguel Maïga in New York on September 26, 2021 © AFP - KENA BETANCUR

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Choguel Kokalla Maïga and almost all of his government are among 149 personalities targeted by individual sanctions recently imposed by the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS). 

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The financial assets of all those on the list are frozen and they are prohibited from traveling within ECOWAS, according to an

obtained by AFP and RFI on Wednesday, November 17. .

These sanctions also affect members of their families.

In addition, the 121 members of the National Transitional Council, which acts as a legislative body, are also punished.

Colonel Assimi Goïta, transitional president and head of the junta in power since the coup of August 18, 2020, is however absent from this list.

No explanation for those missing from the list

Another notable absentee from this list on which there are 27 ministers in addition to the head of government: the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Abdoulaye Diop.

No explanation is provided for their absence in the document obtained by a correspondent for Agence France-Presse.

The leaders of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), meeting at the summit on November 7, had decided to impose individual sanctions on those who, after two coups d'état in one year in the country plunged into a deep crisis, were delaying the holding of elections for a return of civilians to power.

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