In power since 2013, president Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta is heavily contested in the streets since June.
Of the opponents to the malian president Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta were erected on Monday a half-dozen barricades in Bamako, the day after a mediation west african who has failed to leave Mali for the socio-political crisis he is going through since the beginning of June. The Malians were waiting in the early afternoon that the heads of the protest are deciding on the sequence of events, unpredictable after weeks of tension and clashes between demonstrators and security forces that left at least 11 dead.
In this context, the presidency has indicated that the presidents of Niger, Mahamadou Issoufou, Ivory Coast, Alassane Ouattara, Senegal’s Macky Sall, and Ghana, Nana Akufo-Addo, are expected Thursday in Bamako for talks with a view to finding a solution to the socio-political crisis that crosses the country.
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Without common measurement with those of last week, the dams on Monday, include barriers and burning tyres, have been prepared in the outlying suburbs of the malian capital. In contrast, the traffic was normal on the three bridges over the river Niger connecting the two halves of the malian capital, which had been cut down at the height of the protest movement. But the forces of the order were present on each of them, and on the large arteries.
In power since 2013, president Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta is heavily contested in the streets since June. The climate of exasperation nourished for years by the instability in safe, violence-related jihadist community and in the centre and the North of the country, the economic slump or a corruption, considered endemic, was added to the invalidation in may by the Court of a thirty of legislative results of the march-April.
Failure of a first attempt of mediation
On July 10, the third major demonstration against the government to the appeal of the M5-RFP, has degenerated into three days of unrest murderers in Bamako, the worst in the capital since 2012. Arrival Wednesday, a mission of mediation of the economic Community of African States West (Cédeao) led by the ex-nigerian president Goodluck Jonathan has proposed a plan to end the crisis, made public Sunday.
It calls for particular training “for any emergency” a national unity government bringing together representatives of the majority coalition, the opposition and members of civil society, as well as the appointment of a new constitutional Court would be established to examine the priority dispute electoral outcome of the general elections.
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During the talks, the leaders of the M5-RFP, an alliance of diverse religious leaders and personalities of the political world and the civil society to the origin of the demonstrations against the power, and which claims priority to the departure of the president Keïta, however, have indicated that they refused to accede to these proposals.
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Before leaving Bamako, the delegation of the Cédéao has acted in the rejection of its proposals by the single M5-RFP but indicated that it was setting up a “technical committee for the follow-up of its recommendations”, suggesting that the negotiations can continue. Messages calling for the revival of actions of “civil disobedience” began to circulate on social networks, after a break during the mediation in west africa.
