Mali: Military junta leaders open talks on transition to civil rule

Subscribe to our channel! Leaders of Mali’s military junta opened talks on power handover in Bamako on Saturday. The conference was initially planned for last weekend but was called off due to disagreements between the army and the main opposition group. The 5 June movement (M5) which led protests against former leader Ibrahim Boubacar Keita demanded its say in the transition process as pressure piled up on the military leaders. “They had a Machiavellian plan to withdraw, to outvote the