“Mali is far from restoring trade and diplomatic exchanges with its neighbors, ECOWAS member states, notes the Maliweb information pagedespite the appointment of a retired soldier as president and a civilian at the head of the transitional government. “
What is stuck for the subregional organization are the powers given to the transitional president, Colonel Assimi Goïta, leader of the coup leaders on 18 August. In fact, he could take the presidency in case of force majeure. A provision denied by ECOWAS, which wants a speedy return to power to civilians.
ECOWAS is also awaiting the dissolution of the junta leadership and the release or presentation of justice to military and civilian detainees.
Is ECOWAS wrong …
The online diary Malikilé is still getting impatient: “Should ECOWAS continue to punish Malians for this reason, as it itself has accepted the principle of a vice presidency and discussed with the CNSP to this day. It is clear that a vice president replaces a president. Unless you remove the vice presidency , which seems to come out of the new requirements of ECOWAS.
Certainly, ECOWAS is free to be incoherent, Malikilé concludes, but it has no right to slowly kill Malians. ”
… Or right?
For the country of Burkina, ECOWAS, on the contrary, has the right to uphold the sanctions: “The military junta is cunning with the demands of ECOWAS to take back with the right hand what it had given up with the left hand, estimates Ouagadougou daily. To meet the demand of a civilian president at the head of the transition, the Putschists found it no better to summon a former brother-in-arms, former Colonel Bah N’Daw. Worse, they flanked this half-hearted civilian by the junata head, who assumed the position of vice president with superpowers. The second reason for maintaining the sanctions from ECOWAS, Le Pays further points out, is that the military junta is pulling its legs in dissolving the National Committee for the Salvation of the People in accordance with the demands of the Heads of State of the subregional organization.
In all circumstances exactly today, still in Burkina Faso, “ECOWAS heads of state could meet again very soon at the request of Ghanaian President Nana Akufo-Addo to clarify the final gray areas of the political situation in Mali. But as a foretaste of a forthcoming demand from the Malian military, Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari said that with about two-thirds of Mali under terrorist occupation, “the military’s priority should be to secure their country”, rather than to retain power. “
Breaks the violence and instability in the DRC
And then another topic, another country: the violence in the DRC … with this tribune to read in Le Monde Afrique.
The Tribune signed Louise Arbor, the former Canadian High Commissioner for Human Rights, and Denis Mukwege, the Congolese doctor who won the Nobel Peace Prize for 2018. “For the atrocities committed in the Democratic Republic of Congo, it must end, it is imperative necessary, they emphasize in order to put an end to impunity for their writers and instigators. The two signatories believe that “the need to do justice is an essential precondition for breaking the cycle of violence and instability and a precondition for moving forward on the path of sustainable development and peace.”
To do this, they recommend following the “UN recommendations proposing the establishment of an international criminal court for the DRC and the establishment of special chambers within the Congolese courts.”
Finally, Louise Arbor and Denis Mukwege conclude, “We welcome President Félix Tshisekedis, a political leader unrelated to past crimes, to fight impunity. We call for the promotion of transitional mechanisms so that the victims of the most serious crimes committed since the early 1990s finally see their rights to justice, truth, compensation and guarantees of non-renewal. respected. ”
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