The Africa Report

Mali: An investigation into head of state Assimi Goïta’s attempted assassination

However, the assailant was quickly overpowered by the Malian president’s security guards, who took the attacker away in the back of a pickup truck. According to a police commissioner interviewed by ...
TheCable

AES asks member states to neutralise any aircraft that violates airspace — after ‘forced landing’ of Nigeria’s plane

The Confederation of Sahel States (AES) says it has authorised its member states to neutralise any aircraft that would ...
The Africa Report

Who really runs Mali? Bah N’Daw or Assimi Goïta?

The two men are installed in Koulouba – the “hill of power”, but for some there is no doubt about who really exercises it. Ever since they took power on 18 August, overthrowing Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta ...
BBC

Mali coup leader granted five-year term in power

Mali's military leader Gen Assimi Goïta has been granted a five-year presidential term by the transitional parliament, which is renewable without elections. The junta leader, who has seized power ...
Yahoo

The head of Mali's military junta appoints himself to the highest rank in the army

FILE - Leader of Mali's ruling junta Lt. Col. Assimi Goita, center, attends an independence day military parade in Bamako, Mali on Sept. 22, 2022. (AP Photo, File) BAMAKO, Mali (AP) — The head of the ...
Yahoo

Mali coup leader Goita sworn in as president

Assimi Goita - the Malian colonel who has overthrown two presidents in the past nine months - was sworn in as interim president on Monday (June 7). The 38-year-old special forces commander had already ...
San Diego Union-Tribune

Mali army Col. Assimi Goita says he’s in charge of junta

BAMAKO, MaliBAMAKO, Mali — A colonel in Mali’s army says he’s now in charge of the West African country, declaring himself chairman of the junta that forced the democratically elected but unpopular ...
Africanews on MSN

Nigeria reacts to Mali statement after emergency military plane landing

Nigeria's Air Force has reacted to threatening statements by neighbouring Mali after a Nigerian military aircraft headed to ...
UPI

Mali coup leader named interim president

May 29 (UPI) --Mali's constitutional court has named Col. Assimi Goita as the country's new interim president after he led a military coup earlier this week. The court said Goita should "lead the ...
CNN

Mali’s interim president targeted in stabbing attempt during Eid prayers

Mali’s interim President Assimi Goita was targeted in an attempted stabbing on Tuesday, the Mali presidency said in a statement. The incident happened during prayers at the Grand Mosque in the capital ...
CNN

Mali’s top court declares coup leader Goita as interim president

Mali’s constitutional court on Friday declared Assimi Goita, the colonel who led a military coup this week while serving as vice president, to be the new interim president. The ruling raises the ...