{"id":57141,"date":"2026-04-29T08:19:42","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T08:19:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=57141"},"modified":"2026-04-29T08:19:48","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T08:19:48","slug":"malis-military-leaders-after-shock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=57141","title":{"rendered":"Mali&#8217;s military leaders after shock"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>BBC:   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is hard to overstate the sense of shock reverberating across West Africa after attackers, in co-ordinated assaults, managed to enter Mali&#8217;s capital, Bamako, assassinate the defence minister and seize control of northern areas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Residents in different cities across the country woke to gunfire and explosions on Saturday &#8211; attacks which an alliance of two groups &#8211; the separatist Azawad Liberation Front (FLA) and the al-Qaeda-linked JNIM group &#8211; said they were behind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The scale of the offensive and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c3w3wyq4v14o\">the withdrawal of Malian and Russian forces from the northern city of Kidal<\/a>, now under FLA control, have fuelled doubts about the strength of the military government led by Col Assimi Go\u00efta, who came to power in a coup in August 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It has taken Go\u00efta several days to make an appearance since the offensive, prompting questions about the junta&#8217;s future, as well as the role of Russian forces deployed in Mali and neighbouring countries to tackle the security threat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BBC: It is hard to overstate the sense of shock reverberating across West Africa after attackers, in co-ordinated assaults, managed to enter Mali&#8217;s capital, Bamako, assassinate the defence minister and seize control of northern areas. Residents in different cities across the country woke to gunfire and explosions on Saturday &#8211; attacks which an alliance of two groups &#8211; the separatist Azawad Liberation Front (FLA) and the al-Qaeda-linked JNIM group &#8211; said they were behind. The scale of the offensive and&nbsp;the withdrawal of Malian and Russian forces from the northern city of Kidal, now under FLA control, have fuelled doubts about&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":57142,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-in-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57141"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57141\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57143,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57141\/revisions\/57143"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/57142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}