{"id":5353,"date":"2024-11-20T22:00:56","date_gmt":"2024-11-20T22:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/2024\/11\/20\/malis-pm-fired-after-criticizing-prolonged-junta-rule-state-tv-says\/"},"modified":"2024-11-20T22:00:56","modified_gmt":"2024-11-20T22:00:56","slug":"malis-pm-fired-after-criticizing-prolonged-junta-rule-state-tv-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/2024\/11\/20\/malis-pm-fired-after-criticizing-prolonged-junta-rule-state-tv-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Mali\u2019s PM fired after criticizing prolonged junta rule, state TV says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\">            Mali\u2019s Prime Minister Choguel Maiga has been fired, state television ORTM said on Wednesday of the civilian who criticized the ruling junta\u2019s failure to organize elections within a promised 24-month transition back to democracy.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\">            The military rulers, who seized power in successive coups in 2020 and 2021, had promised to hold elections in February but postponed the vote indefinitely for technical reasons.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\">            Last week, Maiga said there had been no debate on the elections\u2019 postponement within the government and that he found out about the junta\u2019s decision from the media.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\">            \u201cIt\u2019s all happening in total secrecy, without the prime minister\u2019s knowledge,\u201d Maiga told reporters on Saturday.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\">            His comments sparked tensions with the junta, forcing it to postpone a ministerial council meeting planned for Wednesday, a source close to Maiga told Reuters.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\">            Maiga had fervently defended Mali\u2019s junta as West African neighbors and international allies criticized its military cooperation with Russian mercenaries and repeated election delays.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\">            Under the law, Maiga\u2019s successor would have to form a new government in consultation with interim President Assimi Go\u00efta.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\">            Before being named prime minister in 2021, Maiga served as Mali\u2019s commerce minister under former President Amadou Toumani Toure and as digital economy minister under former President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\">            Maiga was also the leader of the M5-RFP opposition coalition that spearheaded protests against Keita before his overthrow.    <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<div>This post appeared first on cnn.com<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mali\u2019s Prime Minister Choguel Maiga has been fired, state television ORTM said on Wednesday of the civilian who criticized the ruling junta\u2019s failure to organize elections within a promised 24-month transition back to democracy. The military rulers, who seized power in successive coups in 2020 and 2021, had promised to hold elections in February but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":5354,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5353\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}