The Economic Community of the West African States (ECOWAS) has sanctioned about 150 members of Mali’s transitional government including the interim Prime Minister Choguel Maiga.
The financial assets of all those on the list – including the 121 members of the National Transitional Council, have been frozen and they are further banned from traveling within ECOWAS. The sanctions also apply to their family members.
The transitional president and head of the junta Colonel Assimi Goïta and Foreign Minister Abdoulaye Diop are not on the list.
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No official but according to several sources, Assimi Goïta and Abdoulaye Diop were left out to allow the transitional authorities to be present at future meetings of the West African body and thus maintain dialogue between the two parties.
The bloc has been piling pressure on Mali’s transitional government, demanding they stick to an agreement to organize elections next February.
