Bamako,Mali — Mali’s Colonel Assimi Goita said Friday that a new prime minister will be appointed within days, according to an AFP journalist, in the strongman’s first remarks since seizing power this week.
On Monday, soldiers detained the leaders of a caretaker government tasked with steering Mali’s return to civilian rule following a coup last August.
The caretaker president, Bah Ndaw, and Prime Minister Moctar Ouane stepped down before the military released them on Thursday.
But the twin arrests triggered a diplomatic uproar and marked the second apparent coup within a year in the unstable Sahel state.
The United States and Mali’s former colonial power France have both t…
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