Mali Junta Proposes 3-Year Military Rule, Agrees To Free Detained President, Ibrahim Keita

Date: 24-08-2020 2:13 pm (3 years ago) | Author: CLARA JANCITA
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The junta that seized power in Mali wants has proposed a three year military rile, while agreeing to release ousted president Ibrahim Boubacar Keita.

On 18 August 2020, elements of the Malian Armed Forces began a mutiny. Soldiers on pick-up trucks stormed the Soundiata military base in the town of Kati, where gunfire was exchanged before weapons were distributed from the armory and senior officers arrested.

President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita would ultimately resign to avoid bloodshed after he was detained in a military coup, whose leaders pledged new elections to resolve a spiralling political crisis in the fragile West African nation.

According to a source in a visiting West African delegation, the Junta which seized power, wants a military-led transitional body to rule for three years.

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“The junta has affirmed that it wants a three-year transition to review the foundations of the Malian state. This transition will be directed by a body led by a soldier, who will also be head of state,” a source in the ECOWAS delegation in capital Bamako told AFP.

“The government will also be predominantly composed of soldiers” under the junta’s proposal, the source said on condition of anonymity.

The source added that the junta has agreed to “free president Keita”, who has been detained along with other political leaders since the coup on Tuesday, and he “will be able to return to his home” i
n Bamako.

Prime minister Boubou Cisse, who has been detained with Keita at a military base outside the capital where the coup began, would be moved to a secure residence in the city, the source said.

However Mali’s neighbours have called for Keita to be reinstated, saying the purpose of the visit by the delegation from the regional ECOWAS bloc was to help
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“ensure the immediate return of constitutional order”.

Tuesday’s coup was Mali’s second in eight years, and has heightened concern over regional stability as its jihadist insurgency that now threatens neighbouring Niger and Burkina Faso.


Posted: at 24-08-2020 02:13 PM (3 years ago) | Hero
- olowoinlionsden at 24-08-2020 02:53 PM (3 years ago)
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A Better of two Options. Mali would have gone under if the recaltrant President was allowed to say on. The military need not stay that long, they should GOYA and put everything in place within six months, then get on their arses to the barracks.
Posted: at 24-08-2020 02:53 PM (3 years ago) | Gistmaniac
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- dopygenius at 24-08-2020 03:17 PM (3 years ago)
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Advise your country first before you chook mouth for another people matter,they are hustling for a better Mali, but the youths of your own country are still busy dragging, begging,for them to vote for bbnaija shit show....
Posted: at 24-08-2020 03:17 PM (3 years ago) | Gistmaniac
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- Wazubia at 24-08-2020 03:26 PM (3 years ago)
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 Roll Eyes Roll Eyes Roll Eyes
Posted: at 24-08-2020 03:26 PM (3 years ago) | Gistmaniac
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- FloJoJo at 24-08-2020 03:51 PM (3 years ago)
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Quote from: dopygenius on 24-08-2020 03:17 PM
Advise your country first before you chook mouth for another people matter,they are hustling for a better Mali, but the youths of your own country are still busy dragging, begging,for them to vote for bbnaija shit show....

@ dopygenius, Say No to Drugs and seek for help ASAP.
Posted: at 24-08-2020 03:51 PM (3 years ago) | Upcoming
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- olowoinlionsden at 24-08-2020 03:58 PM (3 years ago)
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Quote from: dopygenius on 24-08-2020 03:17 PM
Advise your country first before you chook mouth for another people matter,they are hustling for a better Mali, but the youths of your own country are still busy dragging, begging,for them to vote for bbnaija shit show....
. At least, our Youths have something to keep them busy. They will have not time to be an irritant to our hardworking Government that is painfully working for our Better Tomorrow.
Posted: at 24-08-2020 03:58 PM (3 years ago) | Gistmaniac
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- smart61 at 24-08-2020 05:15 PM (3 years ago)
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ANOTHER MILITARY DISAPPOINTMENT. THESE ARE COUP PLOTTERS WHO PROMISED TO ORGANISE ANOTHER CIVILIAN GOVERNMENT RULE AS SOON AS POSSIBLE BUT NOW THEY THEMSELVES WANT TO REMAIN IN POWER FOR 3 YEARS TO STEAL MONEY, TO STAY IN POWER AS LONG AS THEY WANT, JAIL ANYONE WHO OPPOSE OR CRITICIZE THEM. GOD MADE A HUGE MISTAKE WHEN HE CREATED BLACK PEOPLE
Posted: at 24-08-2020 05:15 PM (3 years ago) | Gistmaniac
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- Baye77 at 24-08-2020 08:57 PM (3 years ago)
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At the end of the day, nobody is to be trusted...not civilians, not the military, no one!
Posted: at 24-08-2020 08:57 PM (3 years ago) | Hero
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- johnbow1 at 24-08-2020 10:09 PM (3 years ago)
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Who civilian hlp....?abegi anybody that can help the masses put it there
Posted: at 24-08-2020 10:09 PM (3 years ago) | Upcoming
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