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The Prime Minister Of Mali And His Entire Government Have Resigned. by COUSIN1279(m): 4:22pm On Apr 19, 2019 |
The prime minister of Mali and his
entire government have resigned,
following an upsurge of violence
in the country.
On Wednesday, a motion of no
confidence was submitted as MPs
blamed Prime Minister Soumeylou
Boubeye Maiga for failing to handle
the unrest.
Last month, scores of herders were
killed by a rival ethnic group.
President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita
said in a statement that he
accepted Mr Maiga and his
ministers' resignation.
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"A prime minister will be named
very soon and a new government
will be put in place after
consultations with all political
forces," the statement said.
Mali has been struggling to control
violence since al-Qaeda-linked
Islamist extremists gripped the
desert north of the country in 2012.
Despite an ongoing military drive
and a 2015 peace agreement,
jihadists still dominate areas huge
areas of the country, having
migrated from the north to the
more heavily populated centre of
the country.
The government has come under
increasing pressure over its
inability to restore stability,
particularly after the massacre of
160 Fulani herders in the Mopti
region.
Armed with guns and machetes,
the attackers appeared to be
members of the Dogon ethnic
group, which has a long history of
tension with the nomadic Fulani
people.
The country was shocked by the
killings and tens of thousands of
people protested on the streets of
the capital Bamako on April 5.
The president said in a televised
address on Tuesday that he had
"heard the anger".
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