UN team gains access to Mali’s Keita, other detainees after coup
The United Nations said Friday, August 21, it had gained access to Mali’s ousted president while rebel soldiers announced the release of two other leaders held in a dramatic coup this week.
A member of the junta, speaking on condition of anonymity, said it had authorized a UN human rights mission to visit all 19 prisoners in Kati, including Keita and Prime Minister Boubou Cisse. The rebel soldiers named their organization the National Committee for the Salvation of the People, under the leadership of a 37-year-old colonel named Assimi Goita, and vowed to create a transitional council and stage elections “within a reasonable time.”
A putsch in 2012 was followed by an insurrection in the north of the country which developed into a jihadist insurgency that now threatens neighboring Niger and Burkina Faso.
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