The President of Mali, Assimi Goïta. – New China
The new transitional president in Mali, Colonel Assimi Goïta, on Friday appointed the members of a new government in which the military obtained key positions such as Defense, Security and National Reconciliation, the secretary told national television. of the presidency, Ali Coulibaly.
One of the leaders of the August 2020 coup, Sadio Camara, is back in the Defense portfolio, according to the presidential decree. His ouster from the government at the end of May by the former transitional president, Bah Ndaw, is considered to be one of the elements that triggered Colonel Goïta’s second putsch in nine months.