{"id":36198,"date":"2021-12-12T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-12-12T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/timessouthafrica.com\/?guid=d3591d842f4ce862f96e820f5a08cec4"},"modified":"2021-12-12T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-12-12T00:00:00","slug":"mali-leader-promises-election-timetable-by-jan-31","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timessouthafrica.com\/mali-leader-promises-election-timetable-by-jan-31\/","title":{"rendered":"Mali Leader Promises Election Timetable by Jan 31"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The head of Mali&#8217;s military-dominated government on Sunday promised west Africa&#8217;s regional bloc he would provide it with an election timetable by January 2022.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) suspended Mali following military coups in August 2020 and May 2021, sanctioning officials deemed responsible for delaying elections and threatening further measures.<\/p>\n<p>West African leaders on Sunday were due to hold a summit in Nigeria&#8217;s capital Abuja to discuss how to respond to Mali&#8217;s failure to hold elections by February 2022 before a return to civilian rule.<\/p>\n<p>The head of Mali&#8217;s transitional government, Colonel Assimi Goita justified postponing the election and holding a national consultation which he said would be &#8220;indispensable&#8221; for peace and stability.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Mali&#8230; commits to providing you with a detailed timetable by January 31, 2022 at the latest that could be discussed during an ECOWAS mission,&#8221; Goita wrote to the heady of the bloc of West African states head, Ghanaian President Nana Akufo-Addo, in a letter obtained by AFP.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The return to constitutional order is and will remain my number one priority,&#8221; Goita said.<\/p>\n<p>Goita emerged as Mali&#8217;s strongman leader after a coup that toppled former president Ibrahim Boubacar Keita in August 2020.<\/p>\n<p>Several civil society organizations are boycotting the consultation launched on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>The ECOWAS summit will also discuss vaccine supplies, travel bans imposed on African countries and Guinea, which has been under military rule since September after a coup ousted former president Alpha Conde.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Source: Voice of America<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The head of Mali&#8217;s military-dominated government on Sunday promised west Africa&#8217;s regional bloc he would provide it with an election timetable by January 2022.The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) suspended Mali following military coup&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.6 - 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