ECOWAS lifts sanctions imposed on Mali after military coup

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The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) yesterday lifted the sanctions imposed on Mali in the wake of an August 18, 2020

, military coup, citing Mali’s “notable advances towards constitutional normalisation” as the reason for the relaxation of the sanctions.

The lifting of the sanctions comes two days after the West African nation’s new government named veteran politician Moctar Ouane, a civilian and former foreign minister, as prime minister. The bloc also yesterday called on the interim government to release all military and civilian officials arrested during the August 18 coup to unseat former president Ibrahim Boubacar Keita and his government.ECOWAS further requested the dissolution of the military junta, the self-titled National Committee for the People’s Salvation , which led the coup, according to the statement.

At least four central cabinet posts – defence, security, territorial administration and national reconciliation – went to colonels in the army, according to a decree read live on state television by the president’s secretary-general Sekou Traore.

 

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