The support of the presidents of Niger, Mahamadou Issoufou, Senegal, Macky Sall, and Nigeria, Muhammadu Buhari, to the self-proclaimed president of Guinea-Bissau, Umaro Sissoco Embalò, is causing some tensions within the Economic Community of African States (ECOWAS).
According to the LSI Africa website, the president of Niger sent a document to the organization on 17 April as the acting head of ECOWAS stipulating that the Conference of Heads of State should “recognize” Sissoco Embalò as the “winner of the presidential election. December 29, 2019 “.
In the long document, the ECOWAS President-in-Office asks that the “investiture of the” Guinean President of the Republic be carried out in accordance with the laws in force “and that everything be done to” prevent the occurrence of a new political and institutional crisis identical the one that paralyzed the country in the last four years “.
The purpose of this document would be to align the organization with the positions of the Niger-Senegal-Nigeria triumvirate to reinforce the internal and regional position of Sissoco Embalò.
According to the LSI Africa website, there is strong internal tension in ECOWAS, with the president of Côte d’Ivoire, Alassane Ouattara, pushing for the document not to be adopted by the organization.
