Ibrahim Keita

Malian army officer, Colonel Assimi Goita, has declared himself as the coup leader who overthrew president Ibrahim Boubacar Keita on Tuesday, August 18. Rebel soldiers detained the president and Prime Minister Boubou Cisse and drove…

Mali’s President, Ibrahim Keita has announced his resignation to avoid ‘bloodshed’, hours after his arrest by troops in a sudden coup that followed a months-long political crisis in the fragile West African nation. On Tuesday, crowds…