Foreign Minister Abdoulaye Diop said he was 'saddened to learn of the death of former president Ibrahim Boubacar Keita', adding that 'it is with great emotion that I bow before his memory'.
BAMAKO - Mali's former president Ibrahim Boubacar Keita, who led the West African country from 2013 until he was ousted in a coup in 2020, died at the age of 76 in the capital Bamako on Sunday, his family said.
Foreign Minister Abdoulaye Diop said he was "saddened to learn of the death of former president Ibrahim Boubacar Keita", adding that "it is with great emotion that I bow before his memory". In the weeks before the 2020 coup, Keita had been struggling with protests fuelled by his handling of the jihadist insurgency and failure to turn around Mali's floundering economy.
He suffered a mini-stroke the following month, and was sent to United Arab Emirates for treatment. He has been based at his Bamako home since, staying out of public life.The junta had vowed to hold elections next month to transition the country back to civilian rule. But at the end of the last year, the junta revised its timetable, saying it it could stay in power for up to five years.
Thousands protested against the sanctions in Bamako on Friday after the junta called for demonstrations.The son of a civil servant, Keita was born in the southern industrial city of Koutiala, the declining heartland of cotton production.
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