ABIDJAN (Reuters) - The Economic Community of West Africa (ECOWAS) will begin here Monday in Mali's military deployment in the mission set up to drive the Islamists take the north, announced Ali Coulibaly, Ivorian Minister of Integration .
"The deployment order was signed yesterday by President (...) no later than Monday, troops will be there or start to happen," he said samedi.
The head of the Ivorian Ouattara currently holds the rotating presidency of the Cédéao.
The Malian army, which received air support Friday of the French forces, announced in the evening having taken the strategic Konna locality, city center had fallen into the hands of the day islamistes.
Ecowas pleaded for months for international intervention against the fighters of Ansar Dine and the Movement for the uniqueness and Jihad in West Africa (Mujao), linked to Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM).
Firstassociated with separatist Tuareg National Movement for the Liberation of Azawad (MNLA), they took advantage of the confusion following the coup d'état of March in Bamako to capture all of Northern Mali desert .
The Security Council of the UN endorsed the intervention of an international force to hunt them, but because of logistical constraints in particular, no African force seemed able to deploy before septembre.< / p>After
Konna, the rebels threatened Sévaré last lock before Mopti on the strategic road Bamako.
"Things have accelerated (...) It is not only to protect Sévaré. We must take the north (Mali) jihadists," said Saturday the Ivorian Minister of Integration, that " began the reconquest ".
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