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Buhari Hits Ghana Sunday For Emergency ECOWAS Summit

Buhari Hits Ghana Sunday For Emergency ECOWAS Summit

May 30, 2021 1:33 am

Nigerian President, Muhammadu Buhari will depart Abuja on Sunday(Today) for Accra, Ghana to attend an emergency Extraordinary Summit of ECOWAS, convened to discuss recent political developments in Mali.

The meeting is at the instance of the Chairman of the Authority of Heads of State and Government of ECOWAS and President of Ghana, Nana Akufo-Addo.

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A statement issued by presidential spokesman, Femi Adesina, said prior to the Extraordinary Summit, the President had met with the Special Envoy and ECOWAS mediator in Mali, former President Goodluck Jonathan, who briefed him …

ECOWAS Gives Mali Junta Ultimatum To Name Civilian President (1)

ECOWAS Gives Mali Junta Ultimatum To Name Civilian President

September 8, 2020 3:35 am

ECOWAS leaders who met in Niamey, Niger on Monday have given the military junta in Mali until Sept. 15 to name a transitional president and a prime minister, according to a statement read at the end of a summit on Monday.

The 15-nation bloc said the president and prime minister, who will lead the transitional government, should be civilians.

The meeting maintained the sanctions it imposed on Mali in the aftermath of the coup.

But it also welcomed steps taken by the junta in the past week to start talks with Mali’s political parties and civil society groups over the …

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