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"An unacceptable coup": European leaders "strongly condemned the arrest of Mali's president and his prime minister," Emmanuel Macron said on Tuesday at the end of a European summit in which France called for an emergency meeting of the UN Security Council. "We are ready to take the targeted sanctions against the main characters,…

Are Malian President Bah N'Daw and his Prime Minister Moctar Ouane doomed? The two men were taken this Monday, May 24, 2021, to the Kati camp, near Bamako, by soldiers near the National Committee for the Salvation of the People, at the beginning of the coup on August 18, 2020. Colonel Assimi Goïta, Vice President of the Transition and CNSP strongman got a press release read on TV where he explained that…

Mali plunged back into crisis on Monday after the military arrested the country's president, prime minister and defense minister after a government reshuffle earlier in the day, which sparked widespread international condemnation and calls for immediate release. The arrests sparked fears of a second coup as President Bah Ndaw and Prime Minister Moctar Ouane lead a caretaker government that was installed following a coup in August under the threat of regional sanctions. Coup leaders and army officers…

Thunderclap yesterday in the already occupied Malian political sky: "barely the list of the new government is presented, saysMaliweb, dissatisfied soldiers manu-militari arrested the president of the transition, Bah N'Daw, the prime minister, Moctar Ouane, as well as the president's secretary general and the new defense minister. They were forcibly taken to the Kati military camp, a few kilometers from Bamako, the center of…

The Mali military arrested the president, prime minister and defense minister of the interim government of the African country on Monday after a change of government, several diplomatic and government sources told Reuters, indicating a coup. President Bah Ndaw, Prime Minister Moctar Ouane and Defense Minister Souleymane Doucoure were all taken to a military base in Kati outside the capital, Bamako, sources said. The arrests bring further uncertainty to the West African country after a military coup in…

The Malaysian military arrested the president, prime minister and defense minister of the African country's caretaker government on Monday after a change of government, several diplomatic sources and government sources told Reuters, indicating that a coup was on the way. President Bah Ndaw, Prime Minister Moctar Ouane and Defense Minister Souleymane Doucoure were all taken to a military base in Kati outside the capital, Bamako, hours after two military members lost their positions in a change of…

In Mali, shortly after the announcement of the change of government on Monday, May 24, the situation in Bamako became tense. Armed men went to the official home of Prime Minister Moctar Ouane. In the evening, a relative of the Prime Minister confirmed that the President and the Prime Minister were taken to Kati, the fortress of the ex-junta.…

For the formation of the new government in Mali, Prime Minister Moctar Ouane and Transition President have chosen to differ from two emblematic figures from the ex-junta. The announcement of the formation of the new government was made on Monday, May 25, by Transition's presidency in a press release read on public radio and television. Following the announcement, the situation became tense.…

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Failure of negotiations between the Malian government and the National Union of Workers of Mali (UNTM). In a statement released on Sunday, the country's main union center announced that a second five-day strike would begin on Monday because it was dissatisfied with the state's proposal. as reported from Bamako, Serge…