Mali is stuck in the crisis.
President Bah Ndaw and Transitional Prime Minister Moctar Ouane resigned on Wednesday after their arrest by the military on Monday in what amounts to a second coup in nine months, a collaborator of the man said. strong in power and a member of an international mission.
President Bah Ndaw and his Prime Minister Moctar Ouane "have resigned before the arbitrator", the international mediation mission currently in Mali, declares Baba Cissé, special adviser to Colonel Assimi Goïta.
"Negotiations are underway for their release and the formation of a new government," he added.
A member of the international delegation confirmed on condition of anonymity that the transitional president had resigned.
This delegation went to the Kati military camp on Wednesday morning, about fifteen kilometers from Bamako, to meet the two leaders who have been held there since their arrest.
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Unhappy with the new government, the Malian soldiers forcibly took the president and the prime minister on Monday to the Kati military camp, a few kilometers from Bamako, in a coup shaking the already unstable country.
A country caught in turmoil
This is where President-elect Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta was forcibly led on August 18, 2020 by coup colonels to announce his resignation.
It seems it is the same colonels who are on the maneuver nine months later.
Their intentions are not known.
In 2012, Prime Minister Modibo Diarra, arrested by putschists, was forced to resign.
Colonel Goïta said Tuesday to have dismissed the two men by accusing them of having formed a new government without consulting him, while he is the vice-president in charge of security issues, a key role in a country gripped by turmoil jihadist spread and violence of all kinds.