Agency Report
Mali’s military-dominated government on Thursday suggested that the poor Sahel country might take five years to return to democratic rule after holding a four-day ‘reform conference.’
A transition of between six months and five years will enable the junta to ‘carry out structural institutional reforms and (organise) credible, fair and transparent elections,’ according to a document read out at the end of the forum.
In August 2020, young officers led by Mali’s transitional president, Colonel Assimi Goita, toppled the country’s elected president, Ibrahim Boubacar Keita, after weeks of street protests over perceived corruption and his handling of a bloody jihadist insurgency.
