MALI- ECOWAS suspends Mali over the second coup after a summit was held in Accra, Ghana and attended by ten ECOWAS heads of states and three foreign ministers.
According to Ghana’s Foreign Minister Shirley Ayorkor Botchwey, the suspension from ECOWAS takes immediate effect until the deadline of the end of February 2022 when they are supposed to hand over to a democratically elected government.
Former Nigerian president Goodluck Jonathan served as a mediator in the crisis.
Mali’s President of the Transition, Colonel Goita Assimi attended the meeting held in Accra on Sunday 30th May 2021 where Mali was suspended from the Ecowas bloc was pronounced.
The Coup
Colonel Goita Assimi in August 2020 overthrew the elected president of mali Ibrahim Boubacar Keita.
Goita alleged that the reasons for the coup are due to corruption and the incompetency of Keita to stop bloody jihadist activities.
President Bah Ndaw and Prime minister Moctar Ouane were appointed as transitional leaders due to pressure from ECOWAS.
However, soldiers detained transitional President Bah Ndaw and Prime Minister Moctar Ouane claiming they had resigned but later on Thursday released them.
Goita on Friday was named the transitional president by the constitutional court which eventually led to Mali’s suspension from ECOWAS.
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