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Mali has expressed disappointment at the decision by the West Africa regional group, Ecowas, to maintain crippling economic sanctions on the Sahel country.
Foreign Minister Abdoulaye Diop told state-owned ORTM that he hoped the Ecowas would revisit the issue at its summit next month.

Gunmen attacked a Catholic church in Nigeria during mass on Sunday, killing at least 50 people including women and children before setting off dynamites that had congregants scampering to escape the explosions according to local and eyewitness reports.

(Ecowas leaders rejected a proposed 36-month transition)