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Mali
Assimi Goita removes Bah N'Daw's stalwarts and takes charge of intelligence services

Colonel Assimi Goita was officially sworn in as Mali's transitional president. © Habib Kouyate/Xinhua News Agency/Newscom/MaxPPP

New interim president Colonel Assimi Goita has dismissed his predecessor Ban N'Daw's key collaborators. He is also preparing a number of "adjustments" in the security services and putting the finishing touches to the team which will be joining him at the Koulouba Palace. [...]

Published on 18.06.2021 at 05:00 GMT Reading time 3 minutes

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Colonel Assimi Goita, Mali's transitional president.

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The ECOWAS delegation sent on 25 May to Bamako, led by Goodluck Jonathan.

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The transitional vice-president Assimi Goita with Togo's president Faure Gnassimbé, on 28 december in Lomé.

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Assimi Goita presents his army with a mixed bag of armoured vehicles from China and Russia

European Union, France, Mali
Paris secretly prepared to slap sanctions on military junta

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After coup, Turkish construction group Form Insaat guns for Bamako military hospital

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