Mali President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita and top government officials were detained by mutinying soldiers in the capital Bamako, plunging a country already facing a jihadist insurgency and mass protests deeper into crisis
Keita’s detention followed hours of uncertainty after soldiers mutinied in the morning at the Kati military base outside Bamako and rounded up a number of senior civilian officials and military officers.
Mali’s state broadcaster went offline after the spate of detentions, before coming back on air in the early evening with pre-recorded programming. Hundreds of anti-government protesters to poured into a central square to celebrate and chant earlier in the day as rumours swirled that the mutineers had detained Keita.
French forces intervened the following year to beat them back. But the militants have since regrouped and expanded their influence into neighbouring Burkina Faso and Niger, attacking soldiers, local civilians and Western tourists. “I energetically condemn the arrest of President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita, the prime minister and other members of the Malian government and call for their immediate liberation,” African Union chairman Moussa Faki Mahamat said on Twitter.
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