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  • Mali coup leader [Col. Assimi Goita] was trained by U.S. military

    08/21/2020 7:26:14 PM PDT · by SunkenCiv · 39 replies
    Washington Post ^ | Friday, August 21, 2020 | Danielle Paquette
    Col. Assimi Goita, who emerged Thursday as the head of the junta in power, worked for years with U.S. Special Operations forces focused on fighting extremism in West Africa. He spoke regularly with U.S. troops and attended U.S.-led training exercises, said officers from both countries, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the matter publicly. Goita, who also received training from Germany and France, according to the officers, headed Mali's special forces unit in the country's restive central region, where fighters linked to al-Qaeda and the Islamic State have established a stronghold that...
  • Mali Coup Leaders Seized Power Days After Returning From Military Training Camp in Russia

    08/25/2020 8:19:34 AM PDT · by SunkenCiv · 24 replies
    GNN Liberia ^ | August 22, 2020 | Cholo Brooks
    The leaders of the coup that ousted Mali's President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita spent most of the year training in Russia before returning to boot out the democratically-elected leader at gunpoint, according to sources in the Malian military. The rebels took control of Mali's largest military base in Kati, just outside the capital, Bamako, on Tuesday before storming Keita's official residence, seizing the president and forcing him to resign as leader of the West African nation. Numerous media outlets, including the BBC, immediately reported that the coup was led by Malick Diaw and Sadio Camara, two army colonels who hold top...
  • Mali's President Keita resigns and dissolves parliament after military mutiny

    08/18/2020 9:05:46 PM PDT · by Marinario · 17 replies
    France24 ^ | Aug 19, 2020
    Issued on: 19/08/2020 - 02:25 Mali President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita resigned on Tuesday and dissolved parliament hours after mutinying soldiers detained him at gunpoint, plunging a country already facing a jihadist insurgency
  • Mali president, PM held by mutinying soldiers: Live updates

    08/18/2020 2:06:05 PM PDT · by BenLurkin · 18 replies
    alhazeera ^ | 08/18/2020
    Malian President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita and Prime Minister Boubou Cisse have been detained by mutinying soldiers in the capital during an apparent coup attempt. The development on Tuesday came hours after soldiers took up arms and staged a mutiny at a key base in Kati, a town close to Bamako. It followed a weeks-long political crisis that has seen opposition protesters taking to the streets to demand the departure of Keita, accusing him of allowing the country's economy to collapse and mishandling a worsening security situation. Mali's years-long conflict, in which ideologically-motivated armed groups have stoked ethnic tensions while jockeying...