This month of February should have been a date in the history of Mali by marking the end of the transition.
It opened at the end of August 2020, when young officers, led by Colonel Assimi Goïta, overthrew the elected president to establish a junta.
Since then, the military regime of the now transitional president has been maintained.
The presidential election, first scheduled for 2022, then postponed to February 2024, was postponed again, this time sine die, last September.
The reasons were only given lip service by the government: the need to review the electoral files and the population census.
The question of the presidential election is therefore no longer relevant for the transitional authorities.
“In fact, we can even wonder if still talking about transition is not inappropriate
,” underlines Rinaldo Depagne, researcher for the International Crisis Group (ICG), as the military regime will celebrate its four years in August.
The officers hold…
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