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19 Aug 2020

Mali President Ibrahim Keita resigns after detention by mutinous soldiers

Mali President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita resigned on Tuesday and dissolved parliament hours after mutinying soldiers detained him at gunpoint. Looking tired and wearing a surgical mask, Keita resigned in a brief address broadcast on state television after troops seized him along with Prime Minister Boubou Cisse and other top officials. U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres called for the immediate release of Keita and the other detainees.

Ibrahim Boubacar Keita

18 Aug 2020

Mutinying soldiers detain Mali president and PM, worsening crisis

Mali President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita and top government officials were detained on Tuesday by mutinying soldiers in the capital Bamako on Tuesday. This plunged the country already facing a jihadist insurgency and mass protests deeper into crisis. Keita`s detention at his residence in southwestern Bamako followed hours of uncertainty after soldiers mutinied in the morning at the Kati military base outside Bamako.

Emmanuel Macron

20 May 2017

French President Macron stresses on combating Jihadi threat

France has suffered multiple attacks by Islamist militants in the past two years losing 230 civilians.

18 May 2017

UN to deploy rapid intervention force in central Mali

Rapid intervention force of Senegalese troops will soon be deployed in central Mali

19 Jan 2017

Mali car bomb kills 50 in fresh blow to peace efforts

The group of Algerian jihadist and al Qaeda ally Mokhtar Belmokhtar claimed responsibility, in a statement, for the suicide bombing.

18 Jan 2017

Mali car bomb kills 50 in fresh blow to peace

President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita ordered three days of national mourning following the attack, the worst in the country in recent years.

25 Nov 2015

Mali president to bestow medals on hotel assault victims

Officials have yet to identify the two assailants killed in the attack, whose photographs were broadcast on state media Monday.

21 Nov 2015

Mali declares 10-day state of emergency following hotel attack

The emergency was declared following a jihadist attack on a hotel in the capital Bamako that left least 27 people dead.

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