ECOWAS military chiefs have begun to plan for an armed intervention in Mali AFP reports. following President Dioncounda Traoré's request for 5 battalions and air support.
Source : https://www.marocafrik.com/english/ECOWAS-military...
The plan's first phase calls for Southern Mali to be stabalised. Captain Amadou Sanogo the former coup leader has made clear his group's oppositon to the ECOWAS deployment through different spokesman as has the Chief of Staff Colonel Ibrahima Dahirou Dembele.
The former Junta and its associates seem to have retained some influence and Bamako seems divided on the matter. The newspaper Mali Demain notes that senior ECOWAS officials Aly Coulibaly and Djibril Bassolé visited Mali on Wednesday to see President Dioncounda Traoré but the paper says that the majority of Malians remain
resolutely opposed to the ECOWAS deployment and without Mali's full support it would be doomed to failure.
The former Junta and its associates seem to have retained some influence and Bamako seems divided on the matter. The newspaper Mali Demain notes that senior ECOWAS officials Aly Coulibaly and Djibril Bassolé visited Mali on Wednesday to see President Dioncounda Traoré but the paper says that the majority of Malians remain
resolutely opposed to the ECOWAS deployment and without Mali's full support it would be doomed to failure.
Source : https://www.marocafrik.com/english/ECOWAS-military...
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