ECOWAS has suspended Mali's membership in response to last week's coup

West African regional bloc ECOWAS has suspended Mali's membership in response to last week's coup and said authorities must stick to a timetable for a return to democracy, but stopped short of imposing new sanctions. Leaders of the 15-member Economic Community of West African States held an emergency summit in Ghana's capital Accra to agree a response to the Malian military's ouster of a president and prime minister for the second time in nine months. Meanwhile , French President Emmanuel Macron wrapped his visit to the continent over the weekend, He met President Cyril Ramaphosa where the two discussed COVID vaccine access for Africa. Macron arrived from a historic visit to Rwanda where he acknowledged French responsibility in the 1994 genocide.