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2020 Malian coup d'état
Military overthrow of President Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
On 18 August 2020, elements of the Malian Armed Forces began a mutiny,[4][5][6] and subsequently undertook a coup d'état. Soldiers on pick-up trucks stormed the Soundiata military base in the town of Kati, where gunfire was exchanged before weapons were distributed from the armory and senior officers arrested.[7][8] Tanks and armoured vehicles were seen on the town's streets,[9] as well as military trucks heading for the capital, Bamako.[10] The soldiers detained several government officials including President Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta, who resigned and dissolved the government.[11] This was the country's second coup in less than 10 years, following the 2012 coup d'état.[12] On a subregional level, the coup also marked an end to a period of nearly six years, since the 2014 Burkina Faso uprising and the ousting of Burkina Faso's President Blaise Compaoré, during which there was not a single undemocratic change of government in West Africa. For this subregion, where many countries have a history of civil war and violent conflict, this was a period of remarkable stability, during which ECOWAS even managed to find a peaceful resolution to the 2016–2017 Gambian constitutional crisis.[13]
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Part of the Mali War, the 2020 Malian protests and the Coup Belt | |||||||
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