Mali's ousted president Keita says he stepped down to avoid bloodshed in a coup by a mutinous military faction pledging new elections
Mali's President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita says he has resigned to avoid"bloodshed" after he was detained in a military coup.
Flanked by soldiers, NCSP spokesman Colonel Ismael Wague invited Mali's civil society and political movements to join them to create conditions for a political transition that would lead to elections. The military coup has been condemned by Mali's regional and international partners who fear Keita's fall could further destabilise the former French colony and West Africa's entire Sahel region.Rebel soldiers took Keita and Prime Minister Boubou Cisse into custody on Tuesday afternoon and drove the pair to a military base on the outskirts of Bamako, which they had seized that morning.
"If it pleased certain elements of our military to decide this should end with their intervention, do I really have a choice?" he said of the day's events.It was unclear whether Keita was still in custody at the Kati base, which, in a twist of fate, was also the site of the 2012 putsch that brought him to power.
Turkey, United States and France also released separate statements voicing deep concern about the turn of events and urged against regime change.US joined the calls for restraint and echoed its opposition to any "extraconstitutional" change.Keita and Cisse's sudden detention came on the heels of an apparently conciliatory message from the government in Bamako – which had urged the soldiers to engage in dialogue.
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