The words that are coming from Abuja, Nigeria are no good News.: ECOWAS is setting a January 1, 2023 deadline for the government of Mali to free the 46 mercenaries they arrested months ago .
Those mercenaries were sent from Côte d'Ivoire on a mission to overthrow the transition government of Mali amid tumultuous relations between France and Côte d'Ivoire on one side and the Malian government on the other.
Not long ago, Mali expelled all French "peacekeeping troops " on the ground that those forces were in bed with terrorist groups and plundering the country's mineral wealth.
Since then France is using all puppets in the region to isolate or bring down Mali's government.

West African leaders agreed on Sunday to create a regional force to intervene against jihadism and in the event of coups, a senior official said.

Leaders of the Economic Community of West African States had decided to act to "take care of our own security in the region", Omar Alieu Touray, president of the ECOWAS commission, told journalists at a summit in Nigeria.

They are "determined to establish a regional force that will intervene in the event of need, whether this is in the area of security, terrorism and restore constitutional order in member countries," he added.

Mali, Guinea and Burkina Faso have all been hit by military coups in the last two years.

Several countries in the region are also suffering from the spread of jihadism, including Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger, and southwards to the Gulf of Guinea.

National armies, largely powerless against the jihadist forces operating across borders, have been cooperating with external actors such as the UN, France and Russia.

But Touray said this decision would "restructure our security architecture".

The modalities of the planned regional force will be considered by defence chiefs in the second half of 2023, Touray said.

The funding of the force must also be decided, but the ECOWAS official stressed that such an operation could not be solely dependent on voluntary contributions.

- Pressure on Mali -

Addressing another regional problem, the West African leaders told Mali's ruling junta to release 46 Ivorian troops it has held since July.

"We ask the Malian authorities to release the Ivorian soldiers by January 1, 2023 at the latest," said Touray, at the Abuja summit.

The Gambian diplomat said the West African bloc reserved the right to act if the soldiers were not released by January 1.
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Hopebringer:
Stay off drugs bro

That West African thing ( ECOWAS ) is not working at all. It was put together to fight Europeans' proxy wars.

I was telling some people that the black man wasn't created to rule himself, I was scorned at. But the evidence is clear.
How so caled grown-ups, who call themselves African leaders, can't think of solutions to their various countries but are experts at sucking their countries dry while following orders from London and Paris, baffles me...

Hopebringer:
Stay off drugs bro

he's fucking spot on , he's on point , same thing buhari dis by sending nigerian special forces to Gambia to oust the former president Yahya Jammeh

Ecomog cannot sustain any war against country like Mali. Nigeria that is the strongest with much population cannot handle such heat. It's still fighting Boko Haram and other terrorist groups in the north and sessionist groups in the south. If it's military become weak, Nigeria will immediately collapse.
So it's already a failed project.

Hmm

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The reason I don't take Nigeria politics serious again, because most of our stupid leaders are just pawns of the west and britain who just do what thier white masters tell them to do, same goes for all subharan africa countries..The best thing for all African countries to do is to revolt and drive all this useless leader's from power because they are just political puppets by europe and western government..

Africa esp the francophone countries too useless...na modern colonization we kuku dey before...