Mali PM Cheick Modibo Diarra resigns after arrest by army
The Prime Minister of Mali Cheick Modibo Diarra has resigned on state television, hours after being arrested by soldiers who said they were acting on the orders of former coup leader Captain Amadou Sanogo . The Prime Minister also annouced the resignation of his government.
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A member of the president's entourage earlier told AFP news agency that the prime minister had been arrested by about 20 soldiers from the sprawling Kati military base where the 21 March coup was launched. They smashed in the front door of his residence and drove him to Kati where he is being detained.
Cheikh Modibo Diarra was about to fly to Paris for a medical examination. Many in the military were against the prospect of outsid military intervention.Military spokesman Bakary Mariko told the BBC that the prime minister was suspected of attempting to jeopardise the planned political dialogue over the transition to democracy.
This turn of events, effectively a second coup, now throws the planned militray intervention in Mali by ECOWAS supported by the AU , US and EU into question. The West will see this as the military intervening in the democratic process which indeed it is. The Prime Minister's position may have been undermined by the increasing delay in the planned military intervention with the UN Sahel envoy Romano Prodi saying that it was likely to be delayed to next September. The resignation of the government now puts the ECOWAS intervention back to square one. The US, AU and EU and UN will have to consider how to counter the terrorist build up in the north of Mali whilst the political process in Bamako continues to be unresolved.
Cheikh Modibo Diarra was about to fly to Paris for a medical examination. Many in the military were against the prospect of outsid military intervention.Military spokesman Bakary Mariko told the BBC that the prime minister was suspected of attempting to jeopardise the planned political dialogue over the transition to democracy.
This turn of events, effectively a second coup, now throws the planned militray intervention in Mali by ECOWAS supported by the AU , US and EU into question. The West will see this as the military intervening in the democratic process which indeed it is. The Prime Minister's position may have been undermined by the increasing delay in the planned military intervention with the UN Sahel envoy Romano Prodi saying that it was likely to be delayed to next September. The resignation of the government now puts the ECOWAS intervention back to square one. The US, AU and EU and UN will have to consider how to counter the terrorist build up in the north of Mali whilst the political process in Bamako continues to be unresolved.
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