New president in Mali: towards a way out of the crisis?

Malian transitional president Bah N'Daw when he was Minister of Defense on May 28, 2014. HABIBOU KOUYATE / AFP

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Mali is celebrating its 60th birthday this Tuesday and this anniversary is nothing like what we could have imagined a few weeks ago.

The country whose greatness Modibo Keïta, the first president, is now facing the consequences of the coup d'état of August 18, the fourth in its history.

And it is now the former Minister of Defense Bah N'Daw who will preside over the destiny of the country.

This retired officer has just been appointed president of the transition.

An announcement that came a few hours before the ECOWAS ultimatum for the handing over of power to a civilian president expires.

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Reactions and analyzes of this situation in Mali and its latest developments during our special program presented by Nathalie Amar.


At his side,

Moussa Mara

,

former Prime Minister of Ibrahim Boubacar Keït

has between April 2014 and January 2015,

Lamine Savané

, researcher at the University of Ségou and

Mohamed Amara

, researcher at the Max Weber Center of the University of Lyon 2 and teacher at the University of Bamako.

We are September 22, Mali celebrates 60 years of its independence, but it is the political crisis that makes the headlines.

The transition now has a face that of Bah N'Daw, retired colonel and former minister, appointed this Monday president of this transition with as vice-president Colonel Assimi Goïta, the head of the junta which took power in August .

Mali has experienced four coups d'état in 60 years.

Mali special edition: a new face to embody the transition [8:35 am-9am]

Nathalie Amar

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