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West African leaders have decided not to go through with a threat to sanction Mali for jailing 46 Ivorian soldiers. The troops were detained after they arrived at Bamako airport on July 10 to provide backup security for a UN peacekeeping mission, accusing them of being "mercenaries".
Capeb annonce manif régionale du 18 janvier
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
West African leaders arrive at the extraordinary summit on Niger, in Abuja. ECOWAS is not ruling out the use of armed force to reinstate the overthrown president Mohamed Bazoum, meanwhile the regime that emerged from the coup has just announced the formation of a government. IMAGES