Malian President attends ECOWAS summit on terrorism in Ouagadougou
Bamako, Mali (PANA) - Malian President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita is in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, for a G5 Sahel summit on energy production on Friday, PANA learnt from an official source in Bamako.
The summit will be followed on Saturday by another extraordinary meeting of heads of state of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) on security issues.
On Friday, the heads of state of G5 Sahel member countries -- Burkina Faso, Mali, Mauritania, Niger and Chad -- will discuss issues related to energy production and officials of the African Development Bank (AfDB), whose President Akinwumi A. Adesina, will make a presentation of his initiative 'Desert to power' in the Sahel.
Created in 2014 in Nouakchott, Mauritania, G5 Sahel aims to fight terrorism in all its forms in the Sahel-Saharan strip and promote the economic development of this area.
The fight against terrorism will be at the heart of an extraordinary summit of ECOWAS on Saturday, which comes at a time when some countries such as Burkina Faso, Mali and even Niger are increasingly targets of terrorist attacks towards the armed and security forces of these countries and civilian populations.
According to the same source, this summit should prepare the enlargement of the G5 Sahel to all ECOWAS countries, explaining that this initiative will be fine-tuned during the Ouagadougou meeting before being presented to the UN General Assembly in late September in New York.
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