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| Africa Live this week: 19-25 February 2024 - BBC News | Africa Live this week: 19-25 February 2024 - BBC News |
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| BBC Monitoring | |
| The world through its media | |
| The | |
| West African regional grouping Ecowas said on Sunday that it was lifting | |
| sanctions it imposed on Guinea, a day after making a similar decision on | |
| military-led Niger. | |
| The | |
| decision was taken at an extraordinary summit of Ecowas heads of state in | |
| Abuja, Nigeria. | |
| The | |
| bloc also lifted "restrictions on the recruitment of citizens of the | |
| Republic of Mali to professional positions within Ecowas institutions" . | |
| The | |
| organisation had imposed sanctions on Niger, Guinea, Mali and Burkina Faso and | |
| suspended them because of military coups in those countries between 2020 and last year. | |
| "The | |
| authority instructs the president of the commission to invite all four Ecowas | |
| member states in transition to technical and consultative meetings of | |
| Ecowas as well as to all security-related meeting," Ecowas said in a statement on Saturday. | |
| It also urged Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger to reconsider their decision to withdraw from the | |
| organisation. | |
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| Saturday, Ecowas heads of state ordered the reopening of their land borders | |
| with Niger as well as the lifting of asset freezes against Niger's ruling | |
| generals on “humanitarian grounds”. | |
| Analysts | |
| say the bloc's decisions signal its desire to ensure the junta-led | |
| nations remain as members. | |
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| Ecowas | |
| in crisis: Why West Africa's united front is in tatters | |
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