The United States supports the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) sanctions against Mali s military authorities, State Department spokesperson Ned Price said in a statement.
The West African regional bloc ECOWAS has imposed its heaviest sanctions yet on Mali following the military government's defiance of a timetable for the return to civilian rule. But some commentators say Malian people will bear the economic brunt of the measures.
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