LAGOS SEPTEMBER 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Malian forward Salif Keita, the winner of the first African Footballer of the Year award in 1970 and one of the continent’s sporting legends, died in Bamako on Saturday at the age of 76. Keita enjoyed a long career in France at St Etienne and Olympique de Marseille and also played for…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Thousands of anti-French protesters took to the streets of Mali’s capital on Friday waving Russian flags and burning cardboard cut-outs of French President Emmanuel Macron in celebration of the expulsion of France’s envoy in Bamako. Mali expelled the French ambassador last week over what the country’s transitional government described as “hostile and…
LAGOS JULY 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Two armed men, including one who wielded a knife, attacked Mali’s interim president Assimi Goita on Tuesday in the great mosque in the capital Bamako, an AFP journalist saw. The attack took place during prayers for the Islamic festival of Eid al-Adha. Goita has since been taken from the scene, according to…
LAGOS MAY 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Military officers in Mali detained the president, prime minister and defence minister of the interim government on Monday, deepening political chaos just months after a military coup ousted the previous president, multiple sources told Reuters. President Bah Ndaw, Prime Minister Moctar Ouane and defence minister Souleymane Doucoure were all taken to a…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Ousted Mali, President Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta has been admitted to a hospital in the capital Bamako, the Associated Press reported on Tuesday quoting two anonymous sources at a clinic where the former leader is reportedly being treated. This came after the 75-year-old politician was detained for 10 days by the military junta…
LAGOS AUGUST 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Army colonel Assimi Goita on Wednesday introduced himself as Mali’s new military strongman a day after a coup that was condemned by the international community but won support from the country’s opposition. The African Union, European Union, the United States and the UN Security Council have all demanded the junta free President…
LAGOS AUGUST 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Mali President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita and top government officials were detained on Tuesday in a mutiny by soldiers in the capital Bamako. Keita’s detention at his residence in southwestern Bamako followed hours of uncertainty after soldiers mutinied in the morning at the Kati military base outside Bamako and rounded up a number…
LAGOS JULY 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-West African leaders were in talks in Bamako on Thursday in a fresh push to end an escalating political crisis in the fragile state of Mali. In an exceptional one-day summit, the presidents of Senegal, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Nigeria and Niger were meeting Malian President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita and leaders of a…