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Mali Junta Leader Gets Backing to Serve as President Until 2030

Assimi Goita

Photographer: Ken Ishii/AFP/Getty Images

Takeaways

A forum organized by Mali’s army-led government proposed that junta leader Assimi Goita remain in power five more years, the third West African nation under military control to impose such a delay in the return to civilian rule.

Goita, who’s served as interim leader since a 2021 coup, should be elevated to president and be allowed to rule until “peace is restored,” the government said in a statement on Tuesday after two days of consultations in the capital, Bamako.