Sanctions are maintained against Mali, Burkina Faso, and Guinea, three countries ruled by soldiers after the coup d'État. A decision by the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) according to a press release.

After successive military seizures of power in 2020, 2021, and 2022, Mali, Burkina Faso and Guinea were suspended by ECOWAS. In addition, Guinea and Mali had been subject to other sanctions, which have since been partially lifted. Indeed, according to the communiqué signed by the Head of State of Guinea-Bissau Umaro Sissoco Embalo, current President of ECOWAS, following a meeting organized on Saturday at the African Union (AU) summit in Addis Ababa, ECOWAS member countries decided to “maintain existing sanctions against the three countries, and to impose travel bans on government members and others. Representatives ” from these three countries.