{"id":410624,"date":"2022-02-03T16:31:28","date_gmt":"2022-02-03T16:31:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/?p=410624"},"modified":"2022-02-03T16:31:28","modified_gmt":"2022-02-03T16:31:28","slug":"west-africa-bloc-chairman-says-malis-coup-was-contagious","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/west-africa-bloc-chairman-says-malis-coup-was-contagious\/","title":{"rendered":"West Africa bloc chairman says Mali&#8217;s coup was &#8216;contagious&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"Text__text___2vZwzq Text__dark-grey___1T5z1- Text__regular___3orWU3 Text__large___1NuIuP Body__base___3K85eE Body__large_body___1_XkH1 article-body__element___vulnXJ\" data-testid=\"paragraph-0\">ACCRA (Reuters) &#8211; The chairman of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) said on Thursday that a coup in Mali was &#8220;contagious&#8221; and had set a dangerous trend that led to subsequent coups in the region.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Text__text___2vZwzq Text__dark-grey___1T5z1- Text__regular___3orWU3 Text__large___1NuIuP Body__base___3K85eE Body__large_body___1_XkH1 article-body__element___vulnXJ\" data-testid=\"paragraph-1\">Mali&#8217;s August 2020 coup was followed by a second military coup in the West African nation last May, one in Guinea in September last year, a coup in Burkina Faso last week, and a failed coup in Guinea-Bissau on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<div class=\"SpacingContainer__container___2pZeDX SpacingContainer__max-width___3kq0CX\">\n<div class=\"ad-slot__container___3rdCdV\">\n<div class=\"ad-slot__inner___2BzoBn\">\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"Text__text___2vZwzq Text__dark-grey___1T5z1- Text__regular___3orWU3 Text__large___1NuIuP Body__base___3K85eE Body__large_body___1_XkH1 article-body__element___vulnXJ\" data-testid=\"paragraph-2\">&#8220;Let us address this dangerous trend collectively and decisively before it devastates the entire region,&#8221; said Nana Akufo-Addo at the opening of a summit of West African leaders in Ghana&#8217;s capital Accra, to discuss the coup in Burkina Faso.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Text__text___2vZwzq Text__dark-grey___1T5z1- Text__regular___3orWU3 Text__large___1NuIuP Body__base___3K85eE Body__large_body___1_XkH1 article-body__element___vulnXJ\" data-testid=\"paragraph-3\">&#8220;This summit will focus on the emerging threats in our region that stem from the military&#8217;s interference in Mali and its contagious influence in Guinea and Burkina Faso,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"paragraph-3\">\n<p data-testid=\"paragraph-3\">Source: Reuters<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ACCRA (Reuters) &#8211; The chairman of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) said on Thursday that a coup in Mali was &#8220;contagious&#8221; and had set a dangerous trend that led to subsequent coups in the region. Mali&#8217;s August 2020 coup was followed by a second military coup in the West African nation last [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":410625,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6,78],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-410624","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"category-world"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410624","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=410624"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410624\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":410627,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410624\/revisions\/410627"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/410625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=410624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=410624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=410624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}