Yesterday, Thursday August 20, 2020, the Heads of State of ECOWAS held a videoconference, in an extraordinary session whose main subject of this meeting was exclusively focused on the putsch in Mali.
To this end, a number of measures were adopted for this brother country of 19.08 million inhabitants which once again saw its President of the Republic leave power by a coup d’état orchestrated by the army. known as “republican”.
In accordance with their agenda, the Heads of State and Government, by virtue of the Additional Protocol on Democracy and Good Governance, condemned in the strongest terms the threats and pressure exerted by the military putschists on President Ibrahima Boubacar Keïta (IBK) to announce his resignation and the attempt to overthrow a democratic president elected by the Malian people, with the demand to restore, with immediate effect, the institutional order in this country and the reestablishment of IBK as president of the Republic of Mali …
On the occasion of this meeting, it was therefore decided to put economic pressure on Mali with sanctions ranging from the closure of land and air borders, as well as the stopping of all financial transactions and all economic flows. and trade between other ECOWAS countries and Mali …
Speaking and understanding the humanitarian issue that may arise from these sanctions, President Macky Sall asked his counterpart presidents of ECOWAS that these sanctions be limited and that they do not concern certain vital points that could impact the people who do not. is, in reality, guilty of nothing at all, in this crisis.
To this end, it was therefore agreed, in view of the relevance of President Macky Sall’s proposal that these sanctions will therefore not concern basic foodstuffs, drugs and other products and equipment to fight against covid-19, petroleum products and electricity, on the other hand, requiring immediate sanction against the military coup plotters and their partners and collaborators.
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