(26 May 2021) Leaders from the West African regional bloc met Tuesday night and Wednesday with the military and civil society parties in Bamako, to mediate the latest political crisis in Mali.
The international community has stepped up pressure for the release and reinstatement of the president and prime minister of Mali, who were detained Monday by the military.  
"What I can say is, that there is cordial discussion going on, friendly discussion going on for the common interest of the people of Mali," said Goodluck Jonathan, ECOWAS ((Economic Community of West African States) mediator.
The man who ousted Mali's president from power last year regained control of the West African country Tuesday by deposing the president and prime minister of the transitional government, a move France decried as another coup d'etat.
While Col. Assimi Goita pledged to go ahead with holding new elections in 2022 as previously promised, his display of force casts doubt on whether the vote will go ahead without significant interference by the junta that overthrew the last democratically elected president last August.
The move also raised concerns that the new political unrest could further destabilize efforts to control Mali's long-running Islamic insurgency.
The United Nations now spends some 1.2 billion US dollars annually on a peacekeeping mission in Mali and France's military has spent eight years trying to stabilize its former colony amid the ongoing threat.

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