Arrest of Yann Vezilier, accused of trying to destabilise Mali, marks new low in relations between Paris and Bamako.

Malian authorities were on Friday searching for possible accomplices in what they say is a foreign government-backed plot to destabilise the country. This follows the arrest of a French national ...

France's foreign ministry said Saturday that it was in talks with Mali over the arrest of a Frenchman accused of working with intelligence services to "destabilise" the country, calling the claims ...

The junta took Yann Vezilier into custody recently along with others, accusing them of taking part in an alleged plot to destabilise the country.

The 18-month timetable is “untenable”, Goïta wrote in a letter to the CNT, citing the need for reforms first. A draft law says that the length of the transition is to be decided based on the ...

Colonel Assimi Goïta na former special forces commander wey join for di August 2020 coup. Di son of a former director of Mali military police, Goïta bin study for di kontri main military school.

Mali former junta leader Col Assimi Goïta don declare himself di kontri transitional president. E make di announcement afta im strip interim President Bah Ndaw and PM Moctar Ouane of dia powers ...

Assimi Goita, 37, faces a diplomatic backlash over his second power grab in nine months [File: Malik Konate/AFP] ...

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.

Colonel Assimi Goita – the leader of two coups in nine months in Mali – was sworn in as transitional president on June 7. Goita was initially interim vice president after leading the coup last ...

“The steadfast patriot Assimi Goïta will be the people’s candidate in 2022,” said this close friend of the the country’s military rulers. Kaou N’Djim also heads the Appel Citoyen pour la Réussite de ...

Mali’s interim President Assimi Goita has been targeted in an attempted stabbing attack after Eid al-Adha prayers at the Grand Mosque in the capital, Bamako, his office said. “The attacker was ...