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Mali announces it will lift restrictions imposed this spring
Mali’s interim government has rescinded a moratorium on political party activities imposed months ago, the Council of Ministers said on Wednesday.
The country’s military rulers, who came to power in a coup in 2021, issued the ban on April 10. Government spokesman Abdoulaye Maiga announced the news on state television, saying the ban was imposed to maintain public order.
“By taking this deterrent measure, the government is able to curb any threat of public disorder hanging over this major event.” The council said in rescinding the rule.
The Government announced that the current focus was on implementing the recommendations of the April 13-May 10 peace talks and that political parties would be allowed to resume their activities.
Meanwhile, military leaders from Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger signed a treaty at a summit in Niger’s capital, Niamey, on Saturday, creating an alliance with Mali as its first chairman for a year. This follows the three countries’ recent decision to sever ties with the existing Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS).
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In June, a high-level delegation from the Russian Defense Ministry, led by Deputy Defense Minister Yunus Bek Yevkurov, visited Mali and Niger. The head of the Malian interim government, Assimi Goita, received the delegation at the presidential palace in Bamako.
Russia has strengthened its ties with the three Sahel nations of Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso in recent years, despite concerns from the United States and some of its European Union allies. Western influence in the three landlocked countries has waned after military juntas expelled French troops that had been involved in fighting a jihadist insurgency in the Sahel.
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