Mali Crisis: Jonathan lands in Bamako

Members of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) delegation, led by former President Goodluck Jonathan, have arrived in Mali’s capital city of Bamako, to meet with the military junta that forced President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita to resign.

In a tweet, the former President said: “We arrived in Bamako this afternoon to continue with the Ecowas_Cedeao mediation and peace talks towards resolving Mali’s protracted political crisis and restoring normalcy in this beautiful West African country. We will continue to engage Malian stakeholders as brothers and sisters until lasting peace is found.”

Mali’s elected President, Ibrahim Keita, was overthrown on Tuesday by mutinying soldiers, who took him, and Prime Minister Boubou Cisse, as well as other senior officials into custody.