Mali Urges Regional Monetary Union to Defy Economic Sanctions
Assimi Goita, center, stands with members of the Supreme Court during his swearing in ceremony in Bamako on June 7, 2021.
Photographer: Annie Risemberg/AFP/Getty Images
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Mali’s military government called on the West African Economic and Monetary Union to defy sweeping economic sanctions that were imposed on the country by a regional bloc last month, describing the measures as “illegal” and “inhumane.”
Mali urges the monetary union to “lift these inopportune sanctions, whose socio-economic consequences inevitably and harshly affect the populations of Mali and the sub-region,” government spokesman Abdoulaye Maiga said in a statement on Monday.