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ECOWAS to discuss Cote d'Ivoire coup

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    The ECOWAS Mediation and Security Council will meet Wednesday in Bamako to discuss Friday's coup in Cote d'Ivoire, AFP quoted an official source in the ECOWAS Secretariat in Abuja as saying. The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Mediation and Security Council is made up of foreign ministers of 10 countries: Benin, The Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Liberia, Mali, Nigeria, Senegal and Togo, as well as Cote d'Ivoire. The meeting has been convened at the behest of ECOWAS Chairman President Alpha Oumar Konare of Mali, AFP quoted the source as saying.

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