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Mali: World Leaders Condemn Military Coup, Urge Release of Prisoners
RFI, 19 August 2020
Leaders around the world have called for constitutional order to be restored in Mali after a military coup plunged the country into fresh political crisis amid fears that the… Read more »
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Mali: Coup - UN Peacekeeping Mission 'Must and Will Continue' Operations
UN News, 19 August 2020
The United Nations continues to monitor the ongoing situation in Mali, where soldiers arrested the President and several members of his cabinet in a military coup on Tuesday. Read more »
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Mali: Coup Leaders Promise New Elections As Detained Keita Steps Down
RFI, 19 August 2020
Malian President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita said on Wednesday he was stepping down after his arrest in a military coup, whose leaders pledged to oversee a transition towards a new… Read more »
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Mali: President Resigns After Military Mutiny, Dissolves Parliament
DW, 19 August 2020
Mali's president and prime minister were seized by mutinous soldiers, plunging the country into deeper political turmoil. The EU has condemned the "attempted coup." West African… Read more »
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West Africa: Mali Crisis Worsens, Presidents Resigns, Despite Efforts of Buhari, Jonathan, Other Ecowas Leaders
Premium Times, 19 August 2020
Despite intervention by regional heads led by Nigerian President, Muhammadu Buhari and his predecessor, Goodluck Jonathan, Mali's history of a military takeovers has played again… Read more »
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African Union, 18 August 2020
The Chairperson of the African Union Commission Moussa Faki Mahamat strongly condemns the forced detention of the President of Mali Ibrahim Boubacar Keita, the Prime Minister and… Read more »
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Mali: Arrests of President and Prime Minister Suggest Successful Military Takeover
allAfrica, 18 August 2020
President Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta and Prime Minister Prime Minister Boubou Cisse are now arrested, say reports from France24 and Reuters. Earlier journalists in Bamako had told… Read more »
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Mali: Coup Leader Could Be Colonel Sadio Camara - DW Sources
DW, 18 August 2020
Shots have been heard at an army base in Kati, just outside the capital, amid an ongoing political crisis in Mali. The situation remains unclear, but news of the gunshots quickly… Read more »
Mali Coup Leaders Promise New Election
Mali coup leaders appeared on television with a promise of a "reasonable timeline" for holding new elections after President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita resigned a few hours after being arrested by the army. "I want no blood to be spilled to keep me in power", he said in a televised address. The Economic Community of West African States has suspended Mali from its decision-making bodies, close its member states' borders with that country and suspend all financial flows between its members and Mali.
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Mali's opposition has dismissed a plan proposed by an ECOWAS mediation team to form a unity government, pushing instead for the resignation of President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita, who ... Read more »
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The leadership of the Economic Community of West Africa States, in a virtual meeting, threatened to sanction groups which refuse to abide by recommendations prescribed to restore ... Read more »
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There are now nine new members of Mali's constitutional court after a ceremony attended by President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita and former Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan, who ... Read more »
Ibrahim Boubacar Keita, President of the Republic of Mali, addresses the general debate of the 74th session General Assembly (file photo).
