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A man accused of the assassination attempt on Mali's military strongman Assimi Goita, the figure behind two coups in less than a year, has died in custody, the government said on Sunday. The suspect, whose identity has not been revealed, had been taken into custody after the assassination attempt on Bamako's large mosque on Tuesday. "During investigations ... his health deteriorated" and he was later hospitalized, but "unfortunately he died", the government said in a statement. It added that an…

In Mali, the man accused of killing Colonel Assimi Goïta, the president of the transition, died at the Grand Mosque in Bamako on Tuesday, in custody on Sunday, July 25, the Malian government said in a statement. as reported from Bamako, Serge DanielIt all started at noon this Sunday. A Malian security source informs reporters…

The investigation continues after the assassination attempt on Tuesday against Colonel Assimi Goïta, the Malian transitional president. The attacker, who was arrested in the mosque with a knife, initially spent his time sleeping due to the psychoactive drugs consumed. But today the investigation is slow. as reported from…

On Thursday night, French army personnel announced that they had "neutralized" in Mali two heads of the Islamic State organization in the Greater Sahara: Rhissa al-Sahraoui and Abou Abderrahmane al-Sahraoui. When the end of his mission is announced, Barkhane maintains pressure on the terrorists. "This new operation illustrates…

Following the assassination attempt by Colonel Assimi Goïta, the president of the Malian transition, the prosecutor at the Tribunal de grande instance of Municipality II in Bamako launched an investigation into facts that would likely constitute crimes against 'attack on state security and attempted assassination. The attacker began to speak into the hands of the security services. .

With this "stabbing attempt" against the president of the transition, "it is a Tabaski who will undoubtedly remain engraved in the collective memory", warns from the beginning. The Mali Journal. An attempt to attack Bamako's great mosque and which "caused a stir among our countrymen", writes The rise.The magazine delivers the story of the events. "On this day of the celebration of the feast of Eid el-Kebir, we can read, the…

In Mali, the transitional president Assimi Goïta fled on Tuesday, July 20, an assassination attempt on the Grand Mosque in Bamako. A man attacked him with a knife and escaped before the police intervened to convict the individual, but a question on everyone's lips: who are the people behind this assassination attempt? as…

An assassination attempt was directed on Tuesday morning, July 20, 2021, at Assimi Goïta, the colonel who has now become interim president. A narrow foiled knife attack at the Grand Mosque in Bamako, while attending Eid al-Adha, the victim's feast. as reported from Bamako, Serge DanielAfter the prayer, when the Imam went out…

Two gunmen, including one who used a knife, attacked Mali's interim president Assimi Goita on Tuesday in the Grand Mosque in Bamako in the country's capital, a journalist from the Agence France-Presse (AFP) who was at the scene said. The attack took place during prayers for the Islamic festival Eid al-Adha. Goita has since been taken from the scene, according to the journalist, who said it was not immediately clear if he had been injured. Religious Affairs Minister Mamadou Kone told AFP that a man…

Two weeks after an international arrest warrant was issued against Karim Keïta, son of former Malian President Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta, as part of the investigation into the disappearance of a Malian journalist, his lawyers are on the plate. They claim that the inquiry has a "political" basis and advise its client not to return to Mali to answer for justice.…