By: The Fatu Network News Desk
A high powered ECOWAS delegation of four presidents is due in Bissau today, led by the bloc’s chairman and Sierra Leone’s President Julius Maada Bio and joined by Senegal’s Bassirou Diomaye Faye, Cape Verde’s José Maria Neves and Togo’s Faure Gnassingbé, but will they actually be able to force a breakthrough?
The mission seeks to push Guinea Bissau’s new junta toward a clear return to constitutional rule. West Africans remember the post election impasse in The Gambia in 2016, when Yahya Jammeh refused to leave after losing the vote. A team of ECOWAS leaders, including Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari, Liberia’s President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Ghana’s then president John Mahama and Sierra Leone’s President Ernest Bai Koroma, led urgent mediation efforts backed by the threat of ECOWAS military action that later became the ECOMIG mission.
As this new delegation prepares to meet the authorities in Bissau, the region watches to see if the generals yield, or if this becomes another long standoff between ECOWAS pressure and entrenched defiance.
By: The Fatu Network News Desk A high powered ECOWAS delegation of four presidents is due in Bissau today, led by the bloc’s chairman and Sierra Leone’s President Julius Maada Bio and joined by Senegal’s Bassirou Diomaye Faye, Cape Verde’s José Maria Neves and Togo’s Faure Gnassingbé, but will they actually be able to force The Fatu Network
