Tag: Assimi Goïta
visit of the ECOWAS mediator to take stock of the transition
As a prelude to the summit of heads of state of the Economic Community of West African States scheduled for December 4 in Abuja, the former president of Nigeria Goodluck…
politicians and personalities ask to suspend the revision of the Constitution
One of the tasks of the transitional government of Mali is the organization of a constitutional referendum. But in the country, the draft Constitution is debated. The text is harshly…
Captain Ibrahim Traoré meets Colonel Assimi Goïta in Bamako
For his first trip abroad, Ibrahim Traoré, recently appointed president of the transition in Burkina Faso, met his Malian counterpart in Bamako, who came to personally welcome him when he…
Abidjan denounces a “hostage taking”
The Malian transitional authorities are demanding that Côte d’Ivoire extradite Malian political figures who have found refuge in Abidjan. This is a condition for the release of the Ivorian soldiers…
the electoral calendar proposed by the authorities passes its first test
The government presented Tuesday, June 28 its draft timetable, electoral calendar. The Minister of Territorial Administration and government spokesman, Colonel Abdoulaye Maïga, had therefore summoned the political parties and civil…
does the new electoral law allow Assimi Goïta to run for president?
While in Mali, the debate on the new electoral law has mainly focused on the differences between the National Transitional Council and the government, the text, including in its version…
the new electoral law adopted after being largely amended
In Mali, the new electoral law was adopted this Friday afternoon. By a very large majority, but with many modifications made to the initial text, which the government had proposed.…
the new electoral law before the National Transitional Council
The legislative body of the transition will vote at the end of the morning this Friday the validation or the rejection, very unlikely, of this particularly awaited text. This is…
The High Council of Malians in France wants to play a role of mediator between Paris and Bamako
Faced with the deterioration since 2020 of relations between Mali and France, the High Council of Malians in France (HCMF) wants to play a neutral intermediary role between the authorities…
demonstration against the French presence in Africa
” France get out! was one of the slogans heard during this march of the Fighters for Economic Freedom (EFF) party. This party, which defines itself as anti-imperialist and pan-Africanist,…