THE STATE OF POLITICS in the West African subregion is growing increasingly complicated by the day. PRESIDENT KEITA, for his part, said, he did not want “blood to be spilled to keep me in power”. FOLLOWING TUESDAY’S coup, the UN Security Council condemned the “mutiny”, urging the immediate release of the president and his officials. THE WEST AFRICAN subregion has seen massive violence unfold over the past few decades. From Liberia, Sierra Leone, Ivory Coast and Guinea, countless number of innocent lives have been lost due to bad governance, corruption greed and nepotism.

Source: Front Page Africa August 20, 2020 05:26 UTC