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

Mali’s interim president, Col. Assimi Goita, has taken direct control of the country’s defence portfolio following the killing of the sitting minister in a wave of coordinated assaults that have ...

“I am Colonel Assimi Goïta, president of the National Committee for the Salvation of the People [CNSP]”. It was with these words, pronounced in hesitant tone before the press summoned to the Kati ...

Mali's military-led authorities say they are determined to fight armed groups despite reeling from a series of coordinated ...

A colonel in Mali's army says he's now in charge of the West African country, declaring himself chairman of the junta that forced the democratically elected but unpopular president to resign. Col.

A young colonel who seized power in a coup, Assimi Goïta strikes a martial pose and talks sovereignty in the name of retaking national territory. His adversary, a jihadist chieftain with many faces, ...