Mali’s temporary President Assimi Goita was the target of a stabbing attempt in Bamako’s Grand Mosque during Eid al-Adha prayers on Tuesday, the West African country’s presidency said in a post on Twitter. “The intruder was quickly thwarted by security. Investigations are still underway “According to the presidency. According to two military sources, Goita was […]
Mali’s interim president and prime minister resigned as part of mediation efforts Wednesday after being arrested in an apparent second military coup in nine months, a top junta aide said. President Bah Ndaw and Prime Minister Moctar Ouane, tasked with steering the return to civilian rule after a coup last August, had been held since […]
Mali’s military has detained the President, prime minister and defense minister of the Interim government. The United Nations’ mission in Mali on Monday called for the President Bah Ndaw and Prime Minister Mocter Quane’s “immediate and unconditional release”. The MINUSMA mission said on Twitter that those who hold the leaders will have to answer for […]
Mali’s former defence minister Ba N’Daou has been announced as president of a new transition government, the leader of the Sahel state’s ruling military junta said on national television Monday. According to a roadmap backed by the junta, the new president, Ba N’Daou, is meant to lead the country for several months before staging elections […]
The Heads of State of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) have agreed to reject the forceful change of government in Mali. Vice President Professor Yemi Osinbajo said this on Tuesday, September 15, while speaking after representing President Muhammadu Buhari at the extraordinary summit of the ECOWAS on the situation in Mali. Daily […]
The West African regional bloc ECOWAS on Monday issued a new appeal for Mali to make a “swift” transition to civilian rule following a military coup on August 18. “It is our community’s duty to help Malians towards the swift re-establishment of all democratic institutions. The military junta must help us to help Mali,” President […]
Mali lost at least 10 soldiers in an overnight ambush in a central region near the Mauritanian border where armed jihadist groups are rampant, security and local sources said Friday. It is the third time Malian security forces have suffered heavy losses since the military took power in a coup on August 18, according to […]
The Economic Community of West African States’ (ECOWAS) Heads of State and Government Authority has told the current military junta in Mali that it has only one year to return the country to civilian rule. Daily Times gathered that this was one of the decisions arrived by the ECOWAS authority at the end of its […]
The international community increased pressure on the military junta that has seized power in Mali, as the Organisation Internationale de la Francophonie suspended the nation from its membership Tuesday. READ ALSO: BREAKING: Mali junta, ECOWAS talks end in deadlock Its leadership agreed the move at an extraordinary session held via videoconference, while adding that it […]
Dialogue between ECOWAS and Mali’s new junta ended on Monday without a deal on how the country should return to civilian rule following last week’s coup, negotiators said. READ ALSO: Mali: Military wants to rule for 3 years, agrees to release the president According to a statement, the two sides also said that ousted president […]
The junta that seized power in Mali wants a military-led transitional body to rule for three years and has agreed to release the ousted president, a Daily Times source in a visiting West African delegation and the rebel soldiers said on Sunday. READ ALSO: Thousands celebrate overthrow of Mali President after coup Last week’s coup […]
Four Malian soldiers were killed and one seriously hurt on Saturday when an explosive device detonated as their vehicle drove by in the centre of the country, Mali, a military source told AFP. READ ALSO: Thousands celebrate overthrow of Mali President after coup The explosion in the Koro region, near Mali’s border with Burkina Faso, […]
Opposition supporters flooded into Bamako’s central square on Friday to celebrate the overthrow of the Mali President, Ibrahim Boubacar Keita, where they were warmly praised by the country’s new military rulers, Daily Times Nigeria gathered. Thousands gathered in the capital’s Independence Square, the birthplace of a months-long protest movement, many of them draped in Mali’s […]
Former President, Goodluck Jonathan, will be going to Mali with other West African leaders on Saturday, in a bid to seek solutions to the crisis ravaging the country Recall, Daily Times Nigeria reported that Mali’s elected President, Ibrahim Keita, was overthrown on Tuesday by military troops, who took him as well as Prime Minister Boubou Cisse […]
On Wednesday, Colonel Assimi Goita of the Malian army declared himself as the leader of the coup that overthrew President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita. “Let me introduce myself; I am colonel Assimi Goita, chairman of the National Committee for the salvation of the People,” he said after meeting top civil servants. Daily Times gathered that the […]
The Federal Government on Wednesday condemned Tuesday coup d’état in Mali by mutineering soldiers, Daily Times gathered. Rebel soldiers took President Ibrahim Keita and Prime Minister Boubou Cisse into custody on Tuesday afternoon and drove the pair to a military base on the outskirts of Bamako, which they had seized that morning. Ibrahim Boubacar Keita’s […]
Mali – United Nations head, Antonio Guterres orders “the immediate and unconditional release” of Mali’s president and members of his government Tuesday after they were seized by rebel soldiers, Daily Times Nigeria gathered “The secretary-general strongly condemns these actions and calls for the immediate restoration of constitutional order and rule of law in Mali,” a […]
By Tunde Opalana Former Deputy Senate President, Senator Ike Ekweremadu, has condemned the military intervention in Mali as well as backing sanctions by a community of nations and the international community against the rebellious soldiers, Daily Times reports. Noting that Mali was strategic in the war against insurgency, Ekweremadu said political instability in the West African […]
On Wednesday, the President of Mali president said he had surrendered to maintain a strategic distance from “bloodshed” after he was detained in a military coup, whose leaders promised new elections to resolve a spiraling political emergency in the delicate West African country, Daily Times gathered. Ibrahim Boubacar Keita’s administration had been plagued by long […]
West Africa nation, Mali, has infamously been in the news in recent months following increased agitations for its deposed President, Ibrahim Boubacar Keita to step down from office. Tens of thousands of Malians have taken to the streets in recent months, in protests fueled by pervasive corruption, extreme poverty, and protracted conflict. In the light […]