{"id":14320,"date":"2021-05-25T10:43:29","date_gmt":"2021-05-25T10:43:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/?p=14320"},"modified":"2021-05-25T10:43:42","modified_gmt":"2021-05-25T10:43:42","slug":"the-military-junta-in-mali-arrests-the-president-and-prime-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/?p=14320","title":{"rendered":"The Military Junta in Mali Arrests the President and Prime Minister"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Rebel militants have arrested interim President Bandeau and Prime Minister Moctar Huan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Kyiv. Ukraine. Ukraine Gate &#8211; May 25, 2021 \u2013 International News<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A joint statement by the African Union, issued with the West <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/?p=7944\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"7944\">African <\/a>regional bloc known as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ecowas.int\/\">ECOWAS<\/a>, and other members of the international community, demanded the immediate release of President Bach N&#8217;Dow and Prime Minister Mocter Uane, who were taken to Katie&#8217;s military headquarters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The arrests came about an hour after the announcement of a new government cabinet. In particular, it did not include Interior Minister Modibo Kone or Defense Minister Sadio Camara, both supporters of the junta.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">No reasons were given for their exclusion, but the move involved strengthening divisions in the caretaker government.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The two leaders were sworn in last September after the ruling <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/?p=11244\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"11244\">military <\/a>junta agreed to hand over power to a civilian interim government under growing international pressure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The junta seized power a month after soldiers surrounded President Ibrahim Bubakar Kate&#8217;s house and fired into the air. He later resigned from national television under pressure, saying he did not want bloodshed so he could remain in office.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The soldiers then went on state television a few hours later, calling themselves the National Committee for the Salvation of the People and promising a speedy return to civilian rule. However, Monday&#8217;s events seemed to call that promise into question.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Read also: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/?p=9340\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"9340\">A Mamaliga with Cheese Recipe You Will Not Regret It<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Source: Ukrgate<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rebel militants have arrested interim President Bandeau and Prime Minister Moctar Huan. Kyiv. Ukraine. Ukraine Gate &#8211; May 25, 2021 \u2013 International News A joint statement by the African Union, issued with the West African regional bloc known as ECOWAS, and other members of the international community, demanded the immediate release of President Bach N&#8217;Dow [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":14321,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[6627,6628,6626,744,748,2399,1854],"class_list":["post-14320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-international-news","tag-arrested","tag-junta","tag-mali","tag-president","tag-prime-minister","tag-ukraine-gate","tag-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14320"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14320\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14322,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14320\/revisions\/14322"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}