NEWS: Malian Authorities Charges Boubou Cisse With ‘Attempted Coup’

Last updated on September 11th, 2021 at 08:09 am

The government authorities in Mali has charged six top government officials with an attempted coup in August 2020. This also includes Boubou Cisse a former prime minister, the coup resulted in the ousting of the then president, Ibrahim Boubacar Keita.

A gathering of attorneys shielding the six said the people, who incorporate Boubou Cisse, the PM at the time President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita’s administration was ousted in August, had been accused of an “endeavored upset.”

“Those accused are regular citizen figures of no settled association with anybody in the military,” they said.

Five of the six have been confined in guardianship, aside from Cisse, whose whereabouts are obscure, the public investigator said.

Insights concerning the issue are scrappy, yet it comes all at once of choppiness following the ouster of Mali’s chosen president, Ibrahim Boubacar Keita, by youthful armed force officials on August 18.