Former Nigerian President Good luck Jonathan has held a meeting with the head of Mali’s junta Colonel Assimi Goita in Bamako in a desperate attempt to save the country’s fragile transition.
The trip was Jonathan’s second in two weeks who is ECOWAS’ envoy for Mali. Goita has vowed to stick to the old transition schedule, which prescribes elections next February.
Goita was sworn in Monday as the country’s President, two weeks after he removed transitional President Bah Ndaw, attracting suspension and condemnation by the African Union.
the commitment of ECOWAS has accompanied the transition process so that elections are held according to the schedule that has already been established by the Malian authorities.
The Sahel country’s second coup in nine months threatens to upset a return to civilian rule. Activists and political parties have warned that the army is keen on dominating power with little interest in a democratic dispensation.
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