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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
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
In the Malian capital of Bamako, opponents of President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita erect barricades and burn tyres to show their frustration at the weeks-long political crisis in the West African state. The 15-nation Economic Community of West African States ended a mediation mission in Mali on Sunday with a list of reform proposals. But the opposition spurned the proposals as they did not address its main demand -- that Keita resign. IMAGES