{"id":11208,"date":"2014-04-06T08:48:00","date_gmt":"2014-04-06T08:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=11208"},"modified":"2014-04-06T08:48:00","modified_gmt":"2014-04-06T08:48:00","slug":"new-pm-appointed-in-mali-as-entire-government-quits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=11208","title":{"rendered":"New PM appointed in Mali as entire government quits"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_11209\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11209\" style=\"width: 624px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/MAli-PM.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11209\" alt=\"Oumar Tatam Ly became prime minister after the defeat of Islamist rebels\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/MAli-PM.jpg\" width=\"624\" height=\"351\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/MAli-PM.jpg 624w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/MAli-PM-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 624px) 100vw, 624px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-11209\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oumar Tatam Ly became prime minister after the defeat of Islamist rebels<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p id=\"story_continues_1\">A new prime minister has been appointed in Mali to succeed Oumar Tatam Ly, who has resigned from office &#8211; along with his entire government.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Ly was elected last year after a French-led military intervention ended an Islamist takeover.<\/p>\n<p>His successor is a former presidential hopeful, Moussa Mara, who had also served as minister of town planning.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Mara had been calling for more action to be taken to curb persistent instability in the north.<\/p>\n<p>Security remains fragile in the north, the former base of the Islamist rebels who were driven back last year.<\/p>\n<p>President Ibrahim Boubakar Keita has been facing international pressure to commence peace talks that could help stability.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Mara stood against Mr Keita in the last presidential election. He represents a new breed of Malian politician, according to the BBC&#8217;s correspondent in Bamako, Alex Duval Smith.<\/p>\n<p>A reshuffle had been expected, our correspondent says, but the departure of the entire government is a shock.<\/p>\n<p>Aged 39, Mr Mara&#8217;s political career is the product of the country&#8217;s town halls rather than elite French schools.<\/p>\n<p>France is now winding down its troop presence in the country but says it will continue to deploy forces against pockets of militancy in the north.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Source: BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new prime minister has been appointed in Mali to succeed Oumar Tatam Ly, who has resigned from office &#8211; along with his entire government. Mr Ly was elected last year after a French-led military intervention ended an Islamist takeover. His successor is a former presidential hopeful, Moussa Mara, who had also served as minister [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":11209,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[14],"class_list":["post-11208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-papa-owusu-ankomah"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11208\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}