Faye and Senegal's Prime Minister Ousmane Sonko were also welcomed to Sahelian capitals last year yet they could not convince the Malian Nigérien and Burkinabè leaders Assimi Goïta Abdourahamane Tiani and Ibrahim Traoré to drop their plan to quit Ecowas...

As a result self-promoted General Assimi Goïta's junta has no excuses left for failing to address the major crises on security the economy and electricity cuts (AC Vol 65 No 10 The juntas are running out of excuses)...

The stand-off between General Assimi Goïta's military regime and Canada's Barrick Gold has reached a critical point with the mining conglomerate suspending work at the Loulou-Gounkoto complex after the government used military helicopters to seize more than three tonnes of gold worth around US$245 million on 11 January...

Yet the companies behind the two lithium mines must pay US$75 million in negotiated settlements to Gen Assimi Goïta's government before exporting spodumene concentrate...

In the early hours of 17 September a band of jihadist insurgents with links to Al Qaida launched attacks on the outskirts of the Malian capital Bamako embarrassing both Colonel Assimi Goïta's junta but also the Russian soldiers he had hired to replace French and other European forces...

After a spokesman for Ukrainian military information claimed his officials had provided information to the Malian insurgents Colonel Assimi Goïta's junta severed diplomatic ties with Kyiv...

The Malian military junta under Colonel Assimi Goïta has exhaustively repressed dissent but chronic power cuts fuel anti-government sentiment which is harder to control...

He stressed the importance of dialogue and visited the Malian leader Colonel Assimi Goïta and Burkina Faso's Captain Ibrahim Traoré before the bloc's 7 July summit had officially named him as facilitator in the region (Dispatches 9/7/24 The juntas take on the civilian presidents)...

In Mali the pro-Russian anti-French youth Yerewolo movement partly responsible for the junta claiming power fell victim to Assimi Goïta's hard line...

Disenchantment is also increasingly evident in Mali where Assimi Goïta's junta has banned all political activity...