Mali’s interim President Bah Ndaw and Prime Minister Moctar Ouane have officially resigned, according to the AFP news agency.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Mr Ndaw and Mr Ouane have been detained since Monday evening at a military camp outside the capital, Bamako.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The officer who led last year’s coup and became vice-president of an interim government, Col Assimi Go\u00efta, accused them of failing in their duties and seeking to sabotage the country’s transition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Reports of their resignations come as West African mediators visit the country hoping to organise their release from military detention.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Coup mediators meet Mali’s military leaders<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n West African mediators visiting Mali have met the senior military figures who carried out the country\u2019s second coup in less than a year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n On Tuesday a military colonel – who was the vice-president in the transitional government – accused President Bah Ndaw and Prime Minister Moctar Ouane of sabotaging the transition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Ecowas team has an extremely difficult mission.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Led by the former Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan, it hopes to get the ousted president and prime minister released from military detention as soon as possible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n But beyond that it is not clear what it can achieve now that Colonel Assimi Go\u00efta is running the country and looks set to name a new prime minister.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Ecowas and other international bodies could impose sanctions against those behind the coup.<\/p>\n\n\n\n But they will be aware that that could further complicate Mali’s road to elections and the promised return to civilian rule early next year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The UN Security Council is due to discuss the political crisis later on Wednesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n BBC News Africa<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Mali’s interim President Bah Ndaw and Prime Minister Moctar Ouane have officially resigned, according to the AFP news agency. Mr Ndaw and Mr Ouane have been detained since Monday evening at a military camp outside the capital, Bamako. The officer who led last year’s coup and became vice-president of an interim government, Col Assimi Go\u00efta, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27983,"featured_media":24084,"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":[6390,31,6325],"class_list":["post-24112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","tag-bah-ndaw","tag-featured","tag-mali"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24112","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=24112"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24112\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24114,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24112\/revisions\/24114"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}