ECOWAS’s actions come at a time when Mali’s revolutionary leaders say they will not be able to hold elections on time.
West Africa’s largest political and economic development body has sent sanctions to Mali’s reform leaders after it said it would not be able to hold presidential and parliamentary elections in February.
Mali’s sub-government, which took power after ousting President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita in August 2020, has promised the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) to monitor the 18-month transition to democracy until the February 27 elections. , 2022..
But it has only advanced the preparations for the vote and has repeatedly said it could be delayed, in part because of the ongoing unrest in the armed forces.
Large areas of 19 million people are out of government as a result of the unrest that began in the north in 2012, before spreading across the country, as well as in Burkina Faso and Niger.
ECOWAS said Sunday after a meeting in Ghana that government officials had announced “their failure to meet the deadline of February 2022”.
The sanctions include travel bans and suspensions for all state members and other relatives, ECOWAS said, adding sanctions in December if they do not.
ECOWAS imposed sanctions for the first time, including the closure of the border, following a coup last year, which was lifted within two months of a series of 18-month-old protests.
Since then, the leader of the first conspiracy, Colonel Assimi Goita, also carried out a second conspiracy in May, this time removing the remaining president and taking over for himself.
Last month, West Africa dismissal a special envoy of the regional bloc in Bamako is accusing him of “acts contrary to his duty”.
