The coup leaders previously said they would stage elections “within a reasonable time”. ECOWAS CANNOT project itself as an impartial monitor while at the same time being seen as playing a double standard to protect one of its own. ECOWAS should not sit by and allow the situation in the Ivory Coast to get out of hand. Just as they have come down hard on the coup leaders in Mali, they owe it to the stability in the subregion to do the same in the Ivory Coast. ECOWAS CANNOT project itself as an impartial monitor while at the same time being seen as playing a double standard to protect one of its own.

Source: Front Page Africa August 26, 2020 22:30 UTC