{"id":18210,"date":"2020-09-08T10:31:06","date_gmt":"2020-09-08T07:31:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/?p=18210"},"modified":"2020-09-08T10:31:14","modified_gmt":"2020-09-08T07:31:14","slug":"mali-junta-given-week-to-appoint-civilian-leader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/2020\/09\/08\/mali-junta-given-week-to-appoint-civilian-leader\/","title":{"rendered":"Mali Junta Given Week To Appoint Civilian Leader"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The military junta that ousted Mali&#8217;s president has been given until 15 September to appoint a civilian leader to lead the transition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Leaders from the West African bloc, Ecowas, said the proposed civilian president and prime minister would lead the country to a fresh election.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The junta is yet to respond to the announcement made on Monday during a summit attended by eight heads of state in Niamey, the capital of Niger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ecowas wants the transition to be done within a year, but the junta has in the past said it prefers &#8220;a reasonable time&#8221; and suggested at least two years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The military junta has been holding transition talks with political leaders.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The ousted President Ibrahim Boubacar Ke\u00efta flew to the United Arab Emirates for treatment over the weekend after a mini-stroke.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He was detained by the junta and resigned on 18 August after months of mass protests.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The military junta that ousted Mali&#8217;s president has been given until 15 September to appoint a civilian leader to lead the transition. Leaders from the West African bloc, Ecowas, said the proposed civilian president and prime minister would lead the country to a fresh election. The junta is yet to respond to the announcement made [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27983,"featured_media":18211,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_paywall_metabox":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[161],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27983"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18210"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18210\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18212,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18210\/revisions\/18212"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}