Summit of West African leaders seeks timetable for quick return to civilian rule, ruling out fresh sanctions against Burkina Faso –– the third African country to be hit by a coup in the last two years
West African leaders attend emergency summit in Accra, Ghana to discuss crisis in Burkina Faso –– the third country in Africa to be hit by a coup in the last two years.
Rather than imposing tougher sanctions, the leaders asked for the "speedy creation of a reasonable timetable for the return to constitutional order" in Burkina Faso, the head of the ECOWAS Commission, Jean-Claude Kassi Brou, told a news conference. The talks were attended by the UN's special representative for West Africa and the Sahel , Mahamat Saleh Annadif, who described a "very frank exchange".
After seizing power, the junta vowed to re-establish "constitutional order" within a "reasonable time". The sanctions have ratcheted up economic pressure, although there is no sign yet that this has translated into political action.
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