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The Malian leader of a coup last August, Colonel Assimi Goita, who has overthrown two presidents in the past nine months, swore in as interim president of the chronically unstable Sahel state on Monday after the country's second nine-month coup. The ceremony in the capital Bamako came after Goita fired the civilian president and prime minister of a transitional government on May 24 to international condemnation. "I swear before God and the Malian people to preserve the Republican regime ... to preserve…

France announced yesterday, Thursday, June 3, to abolish, as a precautionary and temporary measure, the suspension of its joint military operations with Bamako.That is the "warning from France", launchesThe ParisianIt is even "a serious warning in Bamako" in anticipation of guarantees "for civilians to return to power and for the establishment of a transition process that guarantees that the planned elections will be held well…

France "will suspend its joint military operations with Mali" and will only resume them once "the framework for the political transition in Mali is clarified". This is announced by Paris, ten days after Colonel Goita's coup in Bamako. If France and Mali cannot agree, are we heading towards the end of Operation Barkhane? The French general Dominique Trinquand was head of the French military mission to the UN in New York. He is now retired. He delivers his analysis to ChristopheBoisbouvier's microphone. .

Mali's constitutional court appointed the leader of the junta after the coup Colonel Assimi Goita as the country's interim president on Friday. The ruling provided that Goita would "exercise the functions of interim president to lead the transition process to its conclusion", following his takeover this week. The Constitutional Court said it had made the decision because of the "vacancy in the presidency" after the departure of caretaker President Bah Ndaw. Soldiers arrested Ndaw and Prime Minister…