Mali: a new government formed, soldiers in key positions

Malian Prime Minister Choguel Maïga, here June 6, 2021 © Serge Daniel / RFI

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The new transitional president in Mali, Colonel Assimi Goïta, appointed on Friday (June 11) the members of a new government in which the military obtained key positions such as Defense, Security and National Reconciliation, said on national television. the secretary of the presidency Ali Coulibaly.

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One of the leaders of the August 2020 coup, Sadio Camara, finds the defense portfolio, according to the presidential decree.

His ousting from the government at the end of May by

former transitional president Bah N'Daw

is considered one of the triggers for the

second putsch in nine months in the country

.

Ismaël Wagué, another leader of the August coup that overthrew former President Ibrahim Boubakar Keïta, keeps the portfolio of National Reconciliation.

This government is also announced as being " 

open

 " and " 

inclusive

 "

by Prime Minister Choguel Kokalla Maïga

, member of the June 5 Movement / Rassemblement des forces patriotiques (M5 / RFP), a collective of opponents, religious and members of civil society.

Another eminent member of the M5-RFP Ibrahima Ikassa Maïga made his entry into the executive, at the head of the Ministry of State Refoundation.

Ibrahima Ikassa Maïga, who is part of the M5-RFP Strategic Committee, is also a member of the political bureau of the URD, the party of the former main opponent who died in December, Soumaïla Cissé.

Minister Abdoulaye Diop, who was part of the government under President Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta, overthrown on August 18 by the military, returned to his post in Foreign Affairs.

The new team has 28 members including 25 ministers and three deputy ministers.

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 To read also: Mali: Choguel Maïga, a veteran of politics at the prime minister's office

With AFP

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