BREAKING NEWS: Coup in Mali. President arrested. There are Italian soldiers in the country

19 August 20204 years ago babelfish

Coup d'etat in Mali. Rebel soldiers arrested the President and Prime Minister of Mali on Tuesday after they surrounded a residence and shot in the air after several months of demonstrations calling for the ouster of President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita.

The soldiers moved without opposition through the streets of Bamako, the capital, making it very clear that they are in control of the capital. The soldiers come from the Kati barracks from which a previous coup started, about eight years ago. The military took up arms, arrested the highest ranking officers and then headed to the presidential palace.

A regional official, who spoke on condition of anonymity as he was not authorized to speak with reporters, confirmed the arrests of the top government. Prime Minister Keita had tried to mediate the situation and meet the rioters before they arrived in the city, but it didn't help.

BREAKING: Mali's Prime Minister & President have been arrested. Dictators are falling pic.twitter.com/7fb7PD9CfK

– Amakanji Thomas (@AmakanjiThomas) August 18, 2020

Mali is the site of a very long French pacification military operation, the Serval and Barkhane operations, the latter still in progress, which saw thousands of French soldiers engaged in the fight against terrorists, with very little success in truth, given that after 8 years are still there and they have also suffered non-secondary losses. In addition, operation Takuba, which also involves our special troops on the border between Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso, has left (or must leave, given that there is a great deal of confidentiality on the matter). The mission is already confused and imprecise in itself, without a clear objective, and we risk a slippery and dangerous involvement. Now the whole situation becomes even more imprecise and uncertain, and our soldiers in danger given the pro-government position in Europe.

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