A Bill Giving Gen. Assimi Goita, the Head of Mali’s Junta, Five Additional Years in Office was Signed into Law

The bill incorporated the suggestions made at the April national dialogue discussions, which were boycotted by political parties and conducted by the military regime. Last Monday, the parliamentary body appointed by the military passed it.

Despite the military government’s original promise to restore to civilian administration in March 2024, the law, which Goita ratified on Tuesday, gives him the authority to govern the West African country until at least 2030. He issued an order dissolving all political parties in May. It came days after a protest by several hundred demonstrators and at the same time as a spike in the abductions of pro-democracy activists in the capital, Bamako.

In an effort to strengthen its hold on power in the Sahelian country ravaged by jihad, Mali’s military government has imposed a number of limits on freedom, the most recent of which is the new legislation.

Since masterminding two coups in 2020 and 2021 as an insurgency by Islamist organisations associated with al-Qaida and the Islamic State group intensified, Goita has been in charge of the nation. Mali, a landlocked country in the Sahelian desert, has been caught up in the political unrest that has engulfed West and Central Africa in recent years.

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