West African countries will send a delegation to Mali in an effort to reverse a military coup, presidents from the region said, as an opposition coalition there joined the junta in rejecting foreign interference.
A screenshot shows a teleconference during the extraordinary Summit of the Economic Community of West African States Authority of Heads of State and Government on the Socio-Political Situation in Mali August 20, 2020. ECOWAS/Handout via REUTERS
At the end of the meeting, Niger President Mahamadou Issoufou, the acting ECOWAS president, issued a statement saying the heads of state demanded that Keita be returned to power and would “immediately” dispatch a high-level delegation to Mali. Opposition leaders said they would hold a rally in Bamako on Friday to celebrate what they described as their “victory”.
Marc-Andre Boisvert, an independent researcher on the Malian security forces, said the senior mutineers were all respected army colonels who had fought in the north, where affiliates of al Qaeda and Islamic State are active. France intervened the following year to push them back, but the militants have since regrouped and extended their influence into central Mali and countries in West Africa’s Sahel region.
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