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 ...

Assimi Goïta, now president of Mali’s transition government, has been looking for allies since the 24 May 2021 coup. At the Koulouba Palace in Bamako, the colonel has swapped the military command maps ...

A Nigerian Air Force plane has landed in Burkina Faso due to what it calls an in-flight emergency. The Nigerian Air Force has confirmed the emergency landing in the city of Bobo-Dioulasso late Monday.

The text of the charter remains vague on election timing, which is also a bone of contention between the Malian authorities on one hand, and the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) and ...

Mali's cabinet has approved a proposal to extend Colonel Assimi Goïta's leadership for a renewable five-year term, allowing him to further consolidate ongoing reforms in the country. Mali's cabinet ...

General Assimi Goïta, Mali's junta leader, has signed a controversial law granting himself a five-year presidential mandate - renewable indefinitely and without election - sparking widespread concern ...

Mali Minister of State Abdoulaye Maiga speaks during a a plenary session at the COP29 U.N. Climate Summit, Tuesday, Nov. 19, 2024, in Baku, Azerbaijan. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong) BAMAKO, Mali (AP) — Mali ...

Mali has adopted a bill that grants junta leader Assimi Goita a five-year renewable term starting in 2025, the West African country's council of ministers said on Wednesday. Goita, 41, seized power ...

A national political forum in Mali has proposed making military leader Assimi Goïta the country's president, with a five-year renewable term starting in 2025. The recommendation would change Mali's ...

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 ...

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 ...