The ECOWAS Heads of State once more met behind closed doors yesterday Sunday in Accra to decide on the sanctions they had taken once morest Mali, Guinea and Burkina Faso which were not only the scene of military state, but whose putschist authorities still cast doubt on their desire to quickly cede power to civilians. After several rounds of negotiations and a series of ad hoc meetings to facilitate the return to constitutional order in these three countries with particularly violent political software, the sub-regional organization has decided to loosen the noose around Mali and Burkina Faso, following having learned of the concessions made by the leaders of these two countries in relation to the duration of their transition. Thus, Mali will gradually see the heavy sanctions imposed on it since January 2022, in particular economic and trade, lifted for having this time presented an acceptable transition timetable, and Burkina Faso will not be sanctioned excessively, in view of the flexibility he has shown in relation to the duration of his Transition, which will be 24 months instead of the 36 previously announced.
Mali and Burkina can legitimately rub their hands
For these two countries mired in an unprecedented security crisis and almost on the verge of collapse, it is rather good to take, especially when we know that on the economic and social levels, the situation is becoming untenable both in Ouagadougou than in Bamako. It is true that the peoples of Mali and Burkina Faso have so far shown courage and dignity commensurate with the circumstances, but maintaining or tightening sanctions would be fraught with chaos for their respective countries and subsequently hasten the collapse juntas that have come under increasing criticism for their inability to drive out their territories, the terrorists who have been crawling and crawling there for years. If Mali and Burkina can legitimately rub their hands at the end of this last ECOWAS summit, chaired by the Ghanaian John Dramani Mahama, the other countries of the community space also have reason to congratulate themselves, d inasmuch as many of them are bailing out their financial services thanks to exchanges with these pariahs of the sub-region, and were really suffering from backfires and the repercussions of the sanctions imposed on their neighbours. For many West Africans, only the sheep of Panurge, or rather of Paris, campaigned for the putting under glass of the countries that were the scene of putschs, in particular Mali, to please “our ancestors the Gauls”, who assigned them the mission of targeting and punishing in particular the “stubborn” of Bamako, with the complicity of non-French-speaking heads of state, who happily embraced by bad quality corporatism.
Guineans will unfortunately suffer from the sanctions taken yesterday in Accra
Now that we are moving towards a way out of the crisis, we hope that the passions will subside, but the Malians have nothing to cheer regarding too much, since the lifting of the sanctions is accompanied by an almost crippling condition, the non candidature of the actors of the Transition to the future elections. ECOWAS thus wants to avoid being bullied by the Malian authorities who wanted to defuse the crisis by letting go of the date of future elections. But who had the ingenious idea of giving themselves a chance of staying in power by modifying the Electoral Code in order to allow Assimi Goita and his henchmen to apply for the next elections. ECOWAS obviously might not swallow this snake, at the risk of arousing putschist vocations or emulating them in Ouagadougou and Conakry. The pressure therefore remains strong on the ”bearded man” from Koulouba, and it is not certain that he will win this time the battle of hearts and minds if he were to pull a slack out of his eternal beret. green so as not to mourn his political ambitions. In any case, the body now headed by the truculent Bissau-Guinean President, Umaro Sissoco Embalo, will keep an eye on things, and it may have wanted to show its intransigence by drawing the sword once morest Guinea-Conakry, whose leaders are not only at odds with community texts, but also show offhandedness each time they are called to order. Like their brothers in Mali, the Guineans will unfortunately suffer from the sanctions imposed yesterday in Accra, because of the irresponsibility and indifference of their authorities. It is no doubt so as not to give all budding putschists the opportunity to take the peoples hostage that the Nigerian President, Muhammadu Buhari, asked his peers to inscribe in stone the ban on any leader of State in office to run for three consecutive terms, as we have recently witnessed in certain countries of the sub-region. It would be life-saving, but for sure, this suggestion will not pass as a letter in the post when we know the “Biyaan” intentions of certain presidents present yesterday in Accra.
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