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A West African court ordered Thursday the suspension of sanctions imposed on Mali over delayed elections, in a rare diplomatic win for the country's ruling junta. FRANCE 24's Hannane Ferdjani reports from Abidjan, Ivory Coast.
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
The court of the West African Economic and Monetary Union ordered Thursday the suspension of sanctions imposed on Mali over delayed elections. Regional bloc ECOWAS and the West African Economic and Monetary Union (UEMOA) both slapped economic and diplomatic sanctions on Mali in January after the military junta proposed staying in power for up to five years.
The EU welcomed more than 40 African leaders to Brussels on Thursday in an effort to reassert,its influence on a continent where China and Russia have made hefty investment inroads, and where many felt let down by Europe's Covid-19 vaccines rollout.
West African leaders hold a key summit on Thursday as a wave of coups buffet a region struggling with poverty and a long history of turbulence. Africa specialist Doudou Sidibe's analysis.
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