Bah Ndaw, Mali's transitional president, on the Champs-Elysees on May 18. POOL / Reuters
Mali's temporary president, Bah Ndaw, and the prime minister, Moctar Ouané, have allegedly been arrested by the military and taken to the Kati military camp, some 15 kilometers from the capital Bamako, in what appears to be a new coup. It is taking place in the country, according to what military sources informed the Efe agency, and was also confirmed by the United Nations peace mission (Minusma).
The arrest of Ndaw and Ouané took place hours after the composition of the new government was known and that, according to sources, caused the discontent of the military after the exclusion of two important military commanders who led the previous military coup against the former Malian president Ibrahim Boubacar Keita (IBK).
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Ndaw and Ouané were taken to the Kati camp, the same barracks to which the coup plotters who led the military coup on August 18 that overthrew Boubacar Keita belong.
So far there has been no official communication about what is happening, while local sources informed Efe about a visible mobilization near the Kati military camp.
This situation occurs at a tense moment in the country, which is currently experiencing a strike by the National Union of Workers, the most important trade union center in the country, suffers from great insecurity in the north and center of the country, and a transitional process is underway. .
On May 14, Ndaw dissolved the first transitional government and commissioned its prime minister Ouané to form a new, more inclusive government to integrate representatives of different political parties and civil society.
After the coup d'état of August 18, the transitional president Ndaw was appointed at the end of last September, who then replaced the military junta called the National Committee for the Salvation of the People (later dissolved, but whose members were appointed in the transitional government) and that he was in charge of directing the transitional period set at 18 months.