The prime minister had been appointed to the position by the military. Choguel Kokalla Maïga criticized not having been consulted about the negotiations to keep the generals in power.
Mali’s military junta dismissed the civilian prime minister, Choguel Kokalla Maïga, and the Government on Wednesday, after the head of the Executive criticized the military, according to a decree read on state television.
Maïga, appointed to office by the military in 2021 after a second coup d’état within a year, was seen as an isolated person, with limited capacity for action against the military.
In the decree issued by the head of the junta, General Assimi Goïta, and read by the secretary general of the Presidency, Alfousseyni Diawara, it is stated that “the functions of the Prime Minister and the members of the Government cease.”
The resignation comes four days after Maïga made a rare public criticism of the military junta.
The then prime minister lamented having been kept out of the decision-making process over whether the generals would remain in power and spoke of the “ghost of confusion and fusion” that he said hangs over the current transition period.
The military junta that has governed this country since 2020, faced with Islamic fundamentalism and a deep social, political and economic crisis, has not fulfilled its commitment, initially assumed under international pressure, to hand over power to elected civilians in March 2024. has set no deadline in this regard.
Source: Observadora
