Mali: visit of the ECOWAS mediator to Bamako

Mali, May 25, 2021, former President Goodluck Jonathan, ECOWAS mediator during a previous visit to Bamako.

REUTERS - AMADOU KEITA

Text by: David Baché

1 min

A delegation from ECOWAS is expected this Friday, March 18, 2022, in Bamako.

The mediator for Mali of the West African economic organization, Goodluck Jonathan, will try once again to agree with the transitional authorities on an electoral timetable for a return to constitutional order in Mali.

The presidential and legislative elections, initially scheduled for the end of February, have not been held.

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Mali has been living under economic and financial sanctions

for two and a half months, and the authorities are seeking the lifting of these sanctions which heavily penalize the population.

But little is known about the schedule of upcoming meetings.

Neither ECOWAS, which confirms this visit, nor the Malian transitional authorities have communicated the agenda of the planned meetings.

We just know that Goodluck Jonathan is due to arrive at midday.

This Thursday, the current president of the African Union, the Senegalese Macky Sall, said he had met with the Malian transitional president, Colonel Assimi Goïta, " 

" of the mediator's visit.

“ 

 ,” declared President Macky Sall.

The African Union has already expressed its position: an extension of the transition for a maximum of sixteen months.

, twelve months.

This is the duration deemed " 

 " by the Ghanaian Nana Akufo-Addo, current president of ECOWAS.

On the side of the Bamako authorities, after an initial proposal of five years, reduced to four years at the beginning of January, numerous declarations have been formulated signifying an openness to compromise, in order to obtain a lifting of the ECOWAS sanctions as soon as possible.

Some sources believe that an extension of twenty-four months could be proposed by the Malian transitional authorities to the ECOWAS mediator, which has not been officially confirmed.

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