New putsch / Mali: The CNSP takes back control and puts an end to the transition, Pr and Pm under arrest

We therefore do not know, for the moment, whether it was Colonel Assimi Goïta who ordered the arrest of the president and the transitional prime minister or whether he himself was arrested.

rumors of a coup, but we do not know if the current events are just the expression of the dissatisfaction of the military at the publication, this afternoon, of a new government marked by the departure of two members of the junta , defense and security.

What is true, is true! Dissatisfaction of the military after the announcement of the reshuffle The military have not yet issued a statement to explain these initiatives but according to several sources, it is Colonel Sadio Camara, who had just lost his seat at the Defense, and Colonel Assimi Goïta, transitional vice-president and leader of the officially dissolved junta, who are at the origin of this coup.

Condemnation of the international community On the side of the international community, the “attempted coup” is condemned in a joint statement from the UN mission in Mali (Minusma), the Community of West African States (ECOWAS), the African Union, France, the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany and the European Union.

President Bah N’Daw, Prime Minister Moctar Ouane, their newly appointed Minister of Defense General Souleymane Doucouré and other “collaborators” were taken by arms yesterday to the Kati military camp.

"Troop movements in Mali ...

What we know for the moment with almost certainty is that the transitional president and the prime minister are no longer free to move.

"Saïd Penda Official In Mali, shortly after the announcement of the cabinet reshuffle on Monday, May 24, the situation became tense in Bamako.

A diplomat in Bamako whom I contacted by phone told me that he tried to reach Prime Minister Moctar Ouane, but his phone no longer answers.

While it took 10 days to find out about the new government, the military did not take long to react.

His residence in the garrison town of Kati (15 km from Bamako) is on the edge of a busy road and one of my contacts, a police officer, confirmed this unusual device to me at Assimi Goïta..

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