The colonels face down the demands of regional leaders while the West wants to get back to fighting the jihadists. Keïta is all but forgotten, It's been a week of hard bargaining in Bamako and over the West African airwaves as the putschists who turfed Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta out of the presidency negotiate with the Economic Community of West African States (Ecowas) over the shape of a transition to take the country through to fresh democratic elections. In command of the capital, the state machine and popular support, the colonels of the Comité National pour le Salut du Peuple (CNSP) stuck firmly to their bottom line: no comeback for IBK. He has now conceded, and told Ecowas mediators he has no wish to return to office.