Nabolande til Mali erklærer sig parat til at gribe ind mod kup-regering. De er rede til – med sanktioner eller militær kraft – at genindføre civilt styre i det centralafrikanske land. I første omgang søges dog en fredelig løsning med udsendelse af en delegation til møde med kuplederne i Mali.
Mali’s neighbours have threatened to use sanctions and a readiness to use military force to dislodge those behind last week’s coup, urging them to quickly hand back power to civilian rulers, wirites Al Jazeera.
A summit of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has sent a team of heads of state to confront the coup leaders in the coming days.
Meanwhile, thousands of people rallied in support of the military leaders in the capital, Bamako, on Wednesday.
– It’s the first show of public support, Al Jazeera’s Hashem Ahelbarra, reporting from Bamako, said, adding that some people claimed it was choreographed by coup leader Amadou Sanogo.
– He has to show the world that he’s popular, that people love him, that people are taking to the streets to defend his policies.
The protesters brandished banners reading “Down with ATT” referring to the deposed President Amadou Toumani Toure, while shouting “Sanogo solution” in support of Sanogo.
The ECOWAS delegation will be made up of the leaders of Ivory Coast, Benin, Burkina Faso, Niger and Liberia, the bloc said in a statement after its meeting in the Ivorian economic capital of Abidjan on Tuesday.
