UN calls for release of Mali President

Special Desk

After reports that Mali President Bah Ndaw and PM Moctar Ouane have been detained by the soldiers the UN mission in Mali has demanded an immediate release of the two.

Mutinous soldiers arrested Mali’s transitional president and prime minister, hours after a government reshuffle left out two members of the junta that had seized power in a coup nine months earlier.

Mali is looking unstable just nine months after the military coup that saw President Ibrahim Boubakar Keïta removed from office. A previous coup was in 2012.

A joint statement issued along with the West African regional bloc known as ECOWAS and other members of the international community also called for the immediate release of President Bah N’Daw and Prime Minister Moctar Ouane, who were taken to the Kati military headquarters.

Those who signed on to the joint statement called for Mali’s political transition to resume its course and conclude within the established timeframe.

In a tweet, the Minusma mission also called for “calm” in the impoverished West African nation. The UN mission in Mali has demanded an immediate release of President Bah Ndaw and PM Moctar Ouane.

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Reports came in interim President Ndaw and PM and Mr Ouane taken by the soldiers to the Kati military camp near the capital, Bamako. This raised fears of a second coup within a year in the country.

The African Union, the Economic Community of West African States, the EU and the US also condemned the arrests, saying Mali’s top politicians must be released without any preconditions. The reported detentions came just hours after a government reshuffle, which saw two senior army officers who took part in last year’s coup replaced.