Mali junta dissolved but members absorbed to crush rebels
Mali’s military junta of Captain Amadou Sanogo has been dissolved, an announcement by the interim authorities said in Bamako over the weekend.
But while the junta as an entity has been dissolved, its members are being absorbed into a new structure made up of the civil society with a major objective to form a united front, so as to flush out the rebels occupying northern Mali.
Capt Sanogo and his colleagues last March overthrew the constitutionally elected government of former president Amadou Toumani Toure in what initially started as a mutiny. Toure has since gone into exile and presently living in neigbouring Senegal.
WADR’s Bamako Correspondent Abdoul Karim Ba has the details in this report.
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Guinea and Niger have signed an agreement to strengthen and broaden their economic and political ties.
Niger’s President Mahamadou Issoufou and his Guinean counterpart, President Alpha Conde have been speaking on sub-regional issues, mainly the need to end the Malian crisis.
Speaking during a joint press conference in the Guinean capital, Niger’s President Issoufou of Niger did not rule out military option to restore Mali’s territorial integrity.
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During the Conakry visit, the Presidents of Niger and Guinea signed an agreement to strengthen and broaden their economic and political ties.
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