In Mali, the military supported street protests and eventually arrested President Ibrahim Keita and Prime Minister Buba Cisse. After Keita’s arrest, he resigned and dissolved Parliament. The last precedent of a military coup in Mali was in 2012 in Kati, where military personnel rebelled against an ineffective command that was unable to stop the swell of jihadists, after which France ...
In recent days, Mali has been engulfed by a series of dangerous interconnected events – a violent confrontation with an al-Qaeda cell, ethnic conflicts, as well as protests demanding the resignation of President Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta, fuelled by rising anti-French sentiment. https://uwidata.com/7069-sahel-chaos-how-terrorists-are-taking-power-in-mali-niger-and-the-region-as-a-whole/ Keïta is taking a risk In Mali, civil protests continue unabated – from simple demonstrations with posters and ...