with municipal authorities to ensure=that Dakar can fulfill all fiscal, financial and regulatory conditions re=uired to issue long-term debt in the ECOWAS region's capital mark=ts. This is notably expected to include: (a) helping the city clean up an= better document its tax base in order to maximize

inly a step forward. Your friend does not like the=mayor of Dakar so this could be tough if we only limited it to Dakar. My=plan would be to see how ECOWAS tolerates this and then push deeper into=Senegal, maybe Mali. Pikine and Saint Louis are other Senegal cities that=might be do-able. And please don

he report stipulated that funding come from voluntary and not assessed contributions. The Malian transitional authorities (under stress—see below), ECOWAS, and the African Union were disappointed by the lack of outright support for a military mission. Instability in the interim government in Bamako is

the preliminary inquiry, counsel for Karim Wade and other former Ministers of the Republic of Senegal referred to the same procedure applied to the ECOWAS which held, in a judgment dated 22 February 2013, that all proceedings which may be brought against Karim Wade incumbent on the High Court of Justi

ployment of the approximately 3,300 regional troops who have been on standby for several months. It also leaves out the proposed first phase of the ECOWAS mission, a process to secure transitional institutions and stabilize the southern part of the country—a disagreement ECOWAS' Commissioner for Politi

ransitional authorities' request for forces to assist with recovering the occupied territories in northern Mali. Developed by military experts from ECOWAS, the African Union (AU), the European Union, the UN, and other partners, the CONOPs was endorsed by the AU Peace and Security Council on November 13

ational unity as demanded by the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), Mali's Interim President Dioncounda Traore officially requested ECOWAS military assistance on September 4th. The request covered only logistics, training, equipment, and aerial support to help Mali recover its occupied