The White House with ECOWAS: The CNDD must go

From today’s White House statement on the October 17 ECOWAS summit:

The United States strongly supports the Economic Community of West African States’ (ECOWAS) decision to impose an arms embargo on Guinea and to work with the African Union to develop a regime of targeted sanctions against individuals. We welcome this action, to address the growing crisis in the region. The United States continues to condemn the brutal murders and rapes which occurred on September 28 in Guinea and calls on all parties to cooperate fully with the United Nations Commission of Inquiry charged with investigating the violence. We will continue to work with our international partners and the ECOWAS/African Union-appointed facilitator, President Blaise Compaore of Burkina Faso, to urge the junta in Conakry to step aside and allow for the establishment of a transitional authority that can lead the country toward credible elections.

Alliance Guinea salutes the White House’s categorical language that Dadis and the CNDD must go and that ECOWAS and the African Union must remain strong in their resolve to enforce the measures needed to move this transition forward.

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