President MUHAMMADU BUHARI and other West African leaders have arrived in Bamako, the Malian capital to find a solution to the worsening political crisis in the francophone country.

Other African leaders in Mali with BUHARI are Presidents ALASSANE OUATTARA of Ivory Coast, MACKY SALL of Senegal, MAHAMADOU ISSOUFOU of Niger and NANA AKUFO-ADDO of Ghana.

The five leaders were received by Malian President IBRAHIM BOUBACAR KEITA.

The mission to defuse the unrest in the country has the backing of the Economic Community of West African States.