{"id":75,"date":"2025-05-12T11:03:02","date_gmt":"2025-05-12T11:03:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jamacoushotels.com\/eandelmagazine\/?p=75"},"modified":"2025-05-12T11:03:02","modified_gmt":"2025-05-12T11:03:02","slug":"mali-junta-leader-gets-backing-to-serve-as-president-until-2030","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eandelmagazine.com\/eandelmagazine\/mali-junta-leader-gets-backing-to-serve-as-president-until-2030\/","title":{"rendered":"Mali Junta Leader Gets Backing to Serve as President Until 2030"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mali’s military leader, General Assimi Go\u00efta, has\u00a0won<\/a>\u00a0the backing of key political allies to be declared president for the next five years.\u00a0The move mirrored similar actions by fellow military-led\u00a0Alliance of Sahel States\u00a0members Niger and Burkina Faso. The\u00a0AES<\/a>\u00a0includes Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso, all ruled by military governments.<\/p>\n

Niger\u00a0<\/a>made a similar move in March, naming its coup leader Abdourahamane Tiani president with a renewable five-year term. The forum also called for the dissolution of all existing political parties and tightening rules to create new ones, raising fears of an end to Mali’s multi-party system, which was introduced in 1991 after decades of dictatorship.<\/p>\n

Supporters<\/a>\u00a0claimed the changes aimed to reform Mali’s political system, while critics, like exiled opposition leader Isma\u00ebl Sacko, described the proposals as a junta-imposed “diktat.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Mali’s military leader, General Assimi Go\u00efta, has\u00a0won\u00a0the backing of key political allies to be declared…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":76,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-africa","category-politics"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/eandelmagazine.com\/eandelmagazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Mali.jpg",360,220,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/eandelmagazine.com\/eandelmagazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Mali-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/eandelmagazine.com\/eandelmagazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Mali-300x183.jpg",300,183,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/eandelmagazine.com\/eandelmagazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Mali.jpg",360,220,false],"large":["https:\/\/eandelmagazine.com\/eandelmagazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Mali.jpg",360,220,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/eandelmagazine.com\/eandelmagazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Mali.jpg",360,220,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/eandelmagazine.com\/eandelmagazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Mali.jpg",360,220,false],"wpucv-grid-three":["https:\/\/eandelmagazine.com\/eandelmagazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Mali.jpg",360,220,false],"wpucv-grid-two":["https:\/\/eandelmagazine.com\/eandelmagazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Mali.jpg",360,220,false],"wpucv-grid-one":["https:\/\/eandelmagazine.com\/eandelmagazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Mali.jpg",360,220,false],"wpucv-classic":["https:\/\/eandelmagazine.com\/eandelmagazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Mali.jpg",278,170,false],"wpucv-classic-small":["https:\/\/eandelmagazine.com\/eandelmagazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Mali.jpg",150,92,false],"wpucv-galary":["https:\/\/eandelmagazine.com\/eandelmagazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Mali.jpg",360,220,false],"covernews-slider-full":["https:\/\/eandelmagazine.com\/eandelmagazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Mali.jpg",360,220,false],"covernews-slider-center":["https:\/\/eandelmagazine.com\/eandelmagazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Mali.jpg",360,220,false],"covernews-featured":["https:\/\/eandelmagazine.com\/eandelmagazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Mali.jpg",360,220,false],"covernews-medium":["https:\/\/eandelmagazine.com\/eandelmagazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Mali.jpg",360,220,false],"covernews-medium-square":["https:\/\/eandelmagazine.com\/eandelmagazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Mali.jpg",360,220,false]},"author_info":{"info":["vicrollion"]},"category_info":"Africa<\/a> Politics<\/a>","tag_info":"Politics","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eandelmagazine.com\/eandelmagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eandelmagazine.com\/eandelmagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eandelmagazine.com\/eandelmagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eandelmagazine.com\/eandelmagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eandelmagazine.com\/eandelmagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eandelmagazine.com\/eandelmagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78,"href":"https:\/\/eandelmagazine.com\/eandelmagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75\/revisions\/78"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eandelmagazine.com\/eandelmagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eandelmagazine.com\/eandelmagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eandelmagazine.com\/eandelmagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eandelmagazine.com\/eandelmagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}