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West African leaders on Sunday (January 9) backed tough new sanctions on Mali including border closures and a trade embargo, saying the military regime's delays to a return to civilian rule were "totally unacceptable". Niagale Bagayoko, president of the African Security Sector Network (ASSN) gives her analysis.
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".
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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
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.
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