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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 is meant to lead the country for several months …

“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, late Wednesday. Goita was one of the five military servicemen, who delivered a speech on national television on Wednesday morning to shed light …