Mali 's junta leader and the country’s president has assumed the duties of defense minister, authorities said Monday, after the incumbent was killed in sweeping, coordinated attacks by separatist and ...

Mali's military leader Gen Assimi Goïta has been granted a five-year presidential term by the transitional parliament, which is renewable without elections. The junta leader, who has seized power ...

Burkina Faso's President Captain Ibrahim Traoré, left, and Mali's President General Assimi Goïta salute soldiers in Bamako, Mali, 23 December 2025 ...

BAMAKO, May 4 (Reuters) - The leader of Mali's military government, Assimi Goita, has taken ‌over as defence minister after the military officer who previously filled the role was killed in ...

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