Again, Buhari, Jonathan Meet On Mali Crisis

'Dotun Akintomide
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President Muhammadu Buhari, on Tuesday, held another closed-door meeting with former President, Dr Goodluck Jonathan at the Presidential Villa in Abuja.

Details of the brief meeting, which had ended, were yet to be disclosed.

It was learnt that the peace move to end the political crisis in Mali was the focus of the second meeting in less than one month.mali crisis

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Dr Jonathan was at the State House in company of President of ECOWAS Commission, Mr Jean-Claude Kassi Brou, on Tuesday, July 21, to brief President Buhari on the unfolding situation in Mali, necessitating the visit of ECOWAS leaders to consolidate on the agreements reached by various parties.

President Buhari later travelled to Bamako, Republic of Mali on a day visit.

This was after the briefing President Buhari received from the ECOWAS Special Envoy to the country, former President Jonathan.

The President and some ECOWAS leaders led by the Chairman of the Authority of Heads of State and Government of the sub-regional organisation, President Issoufou Mahamadou of Niger Republic, met in Mali to engage in further consultations towards finding a political solution to the crisis in the country.

The meeting involved the Host President, Boubacar Keita and Presidents Machy Sall of Senegal, Nana Akufo-Addo of Ghana and Alassane Ouattara of Cote d’Ivoire.

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A resistance group, M5, is insisting that the Constitutional Court must be dissolved, and the President resign, before peace can return to the country.

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