Soldiers Arrest and Detain Mali President Keïta and Prime Minister Cissé

Mali President, Ibrahim Boubakar Keïta has been arrested by mutinying soldiers, a government spokesman has confirmed.Prime Minister Boubou Cissé has also been arrested, despite earlier appeals.
The citizens are celebrating.
France, the former colonial power, has warned the soldiers to return to barracks. The Economic Community of West African States (Ecowas) urged the mutineers to return to barracks.
The coup attempt began with gunfire inside a key military base, some 15km (nine miles) from the capital, Bamako, on Tuesday morning.
In the capital young men set a government-owned building on fire.
It comes hours after a mutiny – in which senior military personnel were detained by disgruntled junior officers.
The mutiny has condemned by regional group Ecowas and former colonial power France.
The unrest coincides with calls for more protests to demand that the president resign.
Mr Keita won a second term in elections in 2018, but there is widespread anger over corruption, the mismanagement of the economy and the worsening security situation with jihadist and communal violence on the increase.
President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita, the incumbent president has turned away his eyes as his Fulani tribe have continued to kill farmers and take over their lands.
The then opposition leader Soumaila Cisse thrice stood unsuccessfully as a presidential candidate, in 2002, 2013 and 2018; on all three occasions he was defeated in a second round of voting
He would have won then incumbent President Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta, but was abducted some few days to election on March 26,2020 by Fulani lslamic jihadists while on campaign. Some members of his family were lilled before him and he has remained in capativity.
President Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta won the election which was heavily rigged. He changed the Supreme Court’s head as Buhari did. The court ruled that the seats of the opposition were vacant and the president replaced them with his hallelujah boys.
The Fulani which are just 14% of the country is holding them hostage. The citizens are protesting.
To save President Ibrahim Boubacar Keitafrom the rage and anger of the masses, president Buhari who has never moved out of Abuja since coronavirus pandemic mobilized ECOWAS leaders to Mali to protect his Fulani brother.
Footage from the AFP news agency shows a building owned by the justice ministry in Bamako ablaze.
Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta has served as President of Mali since 2013. Keïta served as Prime Minister of Mali from 1994 to 2000 and as President of the National Assembly of Mali from 2002 to 2007. He is 75.