Military regimes have shifted from presenting themselves as temporary ‘corrective’ interventions to becoming personalised ...

Military leader promotes himself after defence minister killed in attacks linked to al-Qaeda and Tuareg separatists.

Mali's junta leader and the country's president has assumed the duties of defense minister after the incumbent was killed in sweeping, coordinated attacks by separatist and jihadi forces that stunned ...

Mali's junta leader, Assimi Goita, will assume the additional role of defence minister, according to a decree announced on Monday, after the death of the previous minister in large-scale attacks ...

Mali’s military government, Assimi Goita, has taken on the role of defence minister.

The United Nations voiced grave concern on Tuesday over reports of extrajudicial killings allegedly carried out by the ...

The leader of Mali's military government, Assimi Goïta, has taken over as defence minister after the military officer who previously ​filled ‌the role was killed in coordinated attacks ⁠on April 25 ...

As Mali says last month's attacks targeted junta leader Assimi Goita, ally Burkina Faso has banned French channel TV5 Monde ...

Less than 48 hours after dismissing the President of the transition, Bah N’Daw, and his Prime Minister, Moctar Ouane, Colonel Assimi Goïta becomes the new President of the transition. On Wednesday, ...

Mali's military leader insists the situation in his country was "under control" as he made his first public address since unprecedented large-scale attacks at the weekend destabilised his ruling junta ...

The two men are installed in Koulouba – the “hill of power”, but for some there is no doubt about who really exercises it. Ever since they took power on 18 August, overthrowing Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta ...