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ECOWAS meets again with the country's military junta in Bamako after Rebel soldiers seized Keita and other leaders after a mutiny on Tuesday, dealing another deep blow to a country already struggling with a brutal Islamist insurgency and widespread public discontent over its government. IMAGES of the meeting
West African military chiefs meet in Ghana to coordinate a possible armed intervention aimed at reversing the coup in Niger. IMAGES
Josep Borrell, the High Representative of the EU for Foreign Affairs, says after a meeting of European foreign ministers that the EU is to halt all training missions in Mali but will keep a presence in the Sahel. "We are halting the training missions" but "will continue to provide advice", the bloc's top diplomat says. SOUNDBITE
Leaders from West Africa's regional bloc ECOWAS stage a summit over Mali's political crisis, three months after slapping tough sanctions on the Sahel nation. IMAGES
West African leaders began a key summit to address the latest coup in the region. Emergency talks in the Ghanaian capital Accra were triggered after Burkina Faso on January 24 became the third member of the 15-nation Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) to be overtaken by the military in less than two years - which Ghanaian President Nana Akufo-Addo calls 'of grave concern' in his opening statement. SOUNDBITE