(Bloomberg) -- Two West African presidents canceled a planned visit to Burkina Faso after the nation's ruling junta adopted a three-year transition plan for a return to democracy.
The Economic Community of West African States will instead send a delegation of ministers to its member state “in the coming days,” the regional bloc said in a statement. Ghanaian President Nana Akufo-Addo and his Nigerien counterpart, Mahamadou Issoufou, were meant to meet Burkina Faso's leadership Thursday.
Africa's fourth-biggest gold producer has been under military rule since Jan. 24 when mutinous soldiers forced then-President Roch Marc Christian Kabore to resign. The 15-nation bloc had hoped for a quick return to civilian rule after a succession of putsches suspended constitutional order in the region. Mali and Guinea, the world's top bauxite producer, have also succumbed to coups in the past year.
Ecowas is “deeply concerned” that Guinea's junta hasn't presented a timetable for the return to civilian rule six months after ousting the president, it said.
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