The Malian government has arrested several officials on Saturday after an almost insurgent unrest in the capital Bamako, where tensions remain high.
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After Issa Kaou Djim and Clément Dembélé the day before, two other leaders of the so-called June 5 movement, Choguel Maïga and Mountaga Tall, as well as two men described as thinking heads, Oumara Diarra and Adama Ben Diarra, were arrested during raids rude, officials and witnesses said.
Security forces later forcefully entered the home of another official, Sy Kadiatou Sow, but could not find her, said a family member, who asked not to be named. on these operations. At the same time, the city, preserved on a daily basis by the jihadist and intercommunity violence that mourns the north and the center of the country, remained the scene of clashes, incidents and rallies which maintained a climate of great nervousness and uncertainty about the future.
These incidents went on intensifying as the evening approached, groups of men continuing to set up roadblocks on major axes, set fire to tires and throw stones at the security forces in the street of the president of the Constitutional Court for example, one of the personalities designated by the popular retaliation, with the head of state Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta.
Bamako had its worst day of civil turbulence in years on Friday, marked by at least three deaths and attacks on such prominent symbols of power as parliament and national television.
