The Economic Community of West African States maintained sanctions against the military leadership in Mali and Guinea and added a travel ban against Burkina Faso’s rulers as fears grow over of a band of countries under military rule stretching across West Africa’s Sahel region.
Ecowas member states agreed to “maintain existing sanctions against all three countries, and to impose travel bans on members of government and other senior officials,” according to a statement released after an extraordinary summit on the sidelines of an African Union Summit in Addis Ababa on Sunday. Read more
