Leaders of the West African Subregion have resolved to send a military Stabilization Force to Guinea Bissau, where there was an attempted coup on Tuesday
This is one of the decisions of an emergency meeting of the sub-regional bloc held in Accra, Ghana on Thursday.
In a communique summarized to journalists, the President of the ECOWAS Commission, Jean- Claude Kassi Brou, however did not specific exactly when the troops will arrive Bissau, to, as envisaged, shore up military support for the government of President Umarou Embalo.
The ECOWAS leaders also reiterated the suspension of Burkina Faso from all activities of the subregional body while demanding a time table from the junta for the restoration of constitutional democratic rule.
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The ECOWAS top bureaucrat added that its mission to Mali to cause the Junta which ousted the now late Ibrahim Boubacar Keita has failed, as the Assimi Goita junta has reneged on all agreements reached with ECOWAS on returning the country to civil rule.
The situation is another coup-affected country, Guinea was also on the agenda, with Brou saying that junta which sacked Alpha Conde not even submitting a timetable to ECOWAS, five month after seizing power.
Earlier at the opening session of the ECOWAS meeting, the Chairman and President of Ghana, Nana Akufo Addo had tasked his counterparts to rise and curb the spate of military take over, as it was setting back the gains of democracy achieved in the last two decades.
Editor :Anoyoyo Ogiagboviogie
