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Leaders from Nigeria, Senegal, Ivory Coast, Niger and Ghana gather in Bamako's Sheraton Hotel to try break a dreadlock between Mali President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita and protest movements demanding his resignation in an escalating political crisis. IMAGES
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
Tehran, Jun 20 (EFE/EPA).- The United States Saturday said it would build on the "meaningful progress" on the possible return to the 2015 nuclear accord even as Iranian presidential elections were not free and fair.In the first remarks after ultraconservative chief justice Ebrahim Raisi was declared winner in the presidential race, the US Department of State said the Joe Biden administration would keep discussing possibilities of returning to the deal.Raisi is seen close to Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, 81, who holds ultimate political power. (Camera: ABEDIN TAHERKENAREH).FOOTAGE SHOT ON JUNE 19, 2021, SHOWS SUPPORTERS OF IRANIAN PRESIDENT ELECT EBRAHIM RAISI CELEBRATE IN IMAM HUSSEIN SQUARE IN TEHRAN, IRAN.
Images of Kati, the military town about 18 km from Mali's capital Bamako, which houses the camp where Malian transitional president Bah Ndaw and his Prime Minister Moctar Ouane are being held. IMAGES
After Mali's military junta announced the leaders of a new transition government, the West African bloc ECOWAS meets with the National Committee for the Salvation of the People (CNSP) in Bamako. IMAGES