Mali Prime Minister's Resignation Edges The Country Closer To War -- The Guardian
Another civilian leader being unseated by the military severely limits the likelihood of successful negotiation or intervention
Mali's interim prime minister – and Nasa's ex-interplanetary navigator – Cheikh Modibo Diarra was chased out of office on Tuesday morning. He'd been arrested the night before by soldiers under the orders of Captain Amadou Haya Sanogo, the man who led the coup that set the country into a disastrous spiral of instability in March. Early Tuesday morning, in a terse and sombre statement on national television (in French and in Bambara), Diarra gave up his post and took his government with him. What that means for Mali's political future is anyone's guess, but it doesn't look good.
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