Mali junta – The Commerce Africa https://thecommerceafrica.com African Reneissance Sun, 13 Sep 2020 11:41:38 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.9 Mali’s M5-RFP Coalition Rejects Junta’s Post-Coup Charter https://thecommerceafrica.com/malis-m5-rfp-coalition-rejects-juntas-post-coup-charter/ https://thecommerceafrica.com/malis-m5-rfp-coalition-rejects-juntas-post-coup-charter/#respond Sun, 13 Sep 2020 11:41:36 +0000 http://thecommerceafrica.com/?p=1923 The M5-RFP coalition in Mali that led anti-government protests before last month’s coup has rejected a political charter pushed through by the ruling junta on Saturday, M5-RFP said.

After three days of negotiations with political leaders and civil society groups, the junta’s roadmap was meant to chart an agreed transition for Mali after the Aug. 18 coup that toppled President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita.

M5-RFP said the final version of the charter did not reflect the results of talks, which it said included a majority vote for a civilian interim president.

“M5-RFP distances itself from the resulting document which does not reflect the views and decisions of the Malian people,” it said in a statement released late on Saturday.

Under the junta’s charter, the interim president can be a civilian or a soldier and will preside over a transitional period of 18 months before elections are held, according to a spokesman for the talks.

Reuters

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Mali Junta Frees President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita https://thecommerceafrica.com/mali-junta-frees-president-ibrahim-boubacar-keita/ https://thecommerceafrica.com/mali-junta-frees-president-ibrahim-boubacar-keita/#respond Thu, 27 Aug 2020 16:40:50 +0000 http://thecommerceafrica.com/?p=1736 The military mutineers under the aegis National Committee for the Salvation of the People, made this revelation in a post on Facebook, saying Keita has been released and is currently in his residence.

The ousted President of Mali, Ibrahim Boubacar Keita, has been released by Mali mutineers, AFP reports. 

The  military mutineers under the aegis National Committee for the Salvation of the People, made this revelation in a post on Facebook, saying Keita has been released and is currently in his residence.

Recall that the military officials, who seized power in Mali, had told ECOWAS delegation that it want a military-led transitional body to rule the country for three years.

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Mali Junta Negotiates 3-year Military Rule, To Free President Keita https://thecommerceafrica.com/mali-junta-negotiates-3-year-military-rule-to-free-president-keita/ https://thecommerceafrica.com/mali-junta-negotiates-3-year-military-rule-to-free-president-keita/#respond Mon, 24 Aug 2020 06:32:39 +0000 http://thecommerceafrica.com/?p=1682 The junta that seized power in Mali wants a military-led transitional body to rule for three years and has agreed to release ousted president Ibrahim Boubacar Keita, a source in a visiting West African delegation said Sunday.

“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” in Bamako.

“And if he wants to travel abroad for treatment, that is not a problem,” the ECOWAS source said.

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.

A junta official confirmed to AFP the decisions on the fate of Keita and Cisse, as well as that “the three-year transition would have a military president and a government mostly composed of soldiers”.

The coup followed months of protests calling for Keita to resign as public discontent with the government grew over the country’s brutal Islamist insurgency and collapsing economy.

While it was met by international condemnation, thousands of opposition supporters celebrated the president’s ouster in the streets of Bamako.

The junta has said it “completed the work” of the protesters and has vowed to stage elections “within a reasonable time”.

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 “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.

Credit: The Guardian

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