President Akufo-Addo has stressed that Mali’s interim administrators must step aside for the establishment of a new democratic order.
Ghana’s president, urged Mali’s military junta to return the country to its democratic standing in the face of mounting international rebuke after former president Ibrahim Boubakar Keita was ousted through a coup.
President Akufo-Addo who is the current chairman of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), insists the military leadership in Mali will be pressed to hand over to a civilian government.
In his interaction with journalist following Tuesday’s urgent ECOWAS meeting at the Peduase Lodge, where seven other leaders of the sub-region were engaged, President Akufo-Addo affirmed that the situation in Mali needed rapid resolution hence the urgent commitment with other leaders on the continent to set out a clear strategy for resolution.
“We need a civilian leadership in the transition, and we have also made it clear that the minute that leadership is put in place through the processes that they have agreed on, in a week’s time the mediator will be back, and we will go to Bamako to see the state at play.”
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