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)...
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- RUSSIA
- AFRICA
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...
DISPATCHES
Following nationwide consultations which were boycotted by many of the opposition Mali's National Dialogue Committee announced that junta leader Colonel Assimi Goïta would be allowed to stand in elections that are now planned for 2027 extending the transition to five years from two effectively prolonging the junta's rule to 2027...
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On 1 May Colonel Assimi Goïta announced that holding elections and returning to constitutional rule was 'not a priority'...
Both men come from the ranks of the gendarmerie and are part of the close-knit circle around the original putschists including junta leader Assimi Goïta (AC Vol 61 No 17 The junta haggles on transition)...
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- CÔTE D'IVOIRE
In late 2023 he announced the end to his exile but did not return to Côte d'Ivoire instead travelling to the three junta-run Sahel states and heaped praises on Mali's leader Colonel Assimi Goïta for re-taking the former rebel fief of Kidal (AC Vol 64 No 24 Will Tidjane Thiam's 'grand retour' succeed...
Colonel Assimi Goïta's regime last week furiously declared that Mali is 'not Algeria's back yard' and unilaterally abrogated the 2015 Algiers peace accord with the former Tuareg separatists...
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The SahelMali's military junta leader Assimi Goïta postponed the restoration of civilian elections that had been promised for February or March...
Fear of links to Iran and Hizbollah helped turn interim President Colonel Assimi Goïta's regime against its biggest domestic supporter and to imprison its leader and harass other senior members of 'Yerewolo – Debout Sur Les Ramparts' ('standing on the ramparts') according to diplomatic sources...