BAMAKO (Mali), June 6 — Tens of thousands of people rallied in Mali’s capital Bamako yesterday demanding the departure of President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita, in a show of force from his recently energised opponents. The protest follows several demonstrations last month in the West African state...
A supporter of the Imam Mahmoud Dicko holds a poster of Mali's President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita during a mass protest to demand his resignation at the Independence Square in Bamako, Mali June 5, 2020. — Reuters pic
Yesterday, tens of thousands of people amassed in a central square in Bamako, AFP journalists said, to the blare of vuvezela horns. Mali’s government has struggled to quell jihadist violence that first broke out in north in 2012, and which has killed thousands of soldiers and civilians to date. Among its leaders are Cheick Oumar Sissoko, a former culture minister, and Mahmoud Dicko, a prominent imam and politician.
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