Mali Junta Leader Gets Backing to Serve as President Until 2030
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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.