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-DW News
Mali, May 29: A constitutional court in Mali has decided to make Assimi Goita the country’s new interim president. Goita led a military coup earlier this week while serving as the interim vice president.Mali’s constitutional court in Bamako has named Assimi Goita — the vice president and colonel who was at the helm of a military coup earlier this week — as the new interim president.
Goita had assumed the chair of interim vice president after leading a coup in August last year that removed President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita. In a coup-within-a-coup on Monday, Goita ordered the arrests of caretaker President Bah Ndaw and Prime Minister Moctar Ouane.Both leaders signed their resignations on Wednesday while in detention and were later released.
The top court ruled on Friday that Goita should fill the vacancy left by Ndaw’s resignation “to lead the transition process to its…