{"id":1790,"date":"2022-01-17T10:12:18","date_gmt":"2022-01-17T10:12:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/?p=1790"},"modified":"2022-01-17T10:57:46","modified_gmt":"2022-01-17T10:57:46","slug":"former-mali-president-ibrahim-boubacar-keita-dies-aged-76","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/1790\/former-mali-president-ibrahim-boubacar-keita-dies-aged-76\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Mali President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita dies aged 76"},"content":{"rendered":"

The family of\u00a0Ibrahim Boubacar Keita<\/a>\u00a0has announced the death of the former President at the age of 76.<\/p>\n

\u201cPresident IBK died this morning at 09:00 GMT in his home\u201d in the capital, Bamako, a family member told the AFP news agency, using the former leader\u2019s initials, with several other family members confirming his passing.<\/p>\n

The cause of death has not been specified.<\/p>\n

Keita led the West African country from 2013 until he was\u00a0removed in a coup\u00a0in 2020.<\/p>\n

He had promised to restore Mali\u2019s honour as a model for democracy in West Africa as he campaigned as a unifying figure in his fractured country, pledging \u201czero tolerance\u201d for corruption.<\/p>\n

He won the election in a landslide in 2013 and was re-elected five years later. But slow reforms, a crumbling economy and decrepit public services and schools, along with a widely shared perception of government corruption, fed anti-Keita sentiment, sparking large protests in Bamako.<\/p>\n

Military officers who overthrew<\/a> Keita have drawn international condemnation for backpedalling on a pledge to hold democratic elections in February and\u00a0extending the transition period\u00a0to civil rule by five years.<\/p>\n

In response, West Africa\u2019s main regional bloc, ECOWAS, said it will close borders with Mali and impose sweeping\u00a0economic sanctions.<\/p>\n

Mali has struggled to regain stability since 2012, when ethnic Tuareg rebels and loosely aligned armed groups seized the northern two-thirds of the country, leading former colonial power France to intervene to temporarily beat them back.<\/p>\n

Ethnic killings and armed forces\u2019 abuses had become a defining feature of Keita\u2019s presidency, despite thousands of French and international troops deployed to contain the armed groups.<\/p>\n

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The family of\u00a0Ibrahim Boubacar Keita\u00a0has announced the death of the former President at the age of 76. \u201cPresident IBK died this morning at 09:00 GMT in his home\u201d in the capital, Bamako, a family member told the AFP news agency, using the former leader\u2019s initials, with several other family members confirming his passing. The cause […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1792,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":1,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"source_name":"Agencies","source_url":"","via_name":"","via_url":"","override_template":"1","override":[{"template":"1","single_blog_custom":"","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"1","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"top","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_share_counter":"1","show_view_counter":"0","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author":"0","show_post_author_image":"0","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_category":"1","show_post_reading_time":"0","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","show_zoom_button":"0","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","show_prev_next_post":"0","show_popup_post":"0","number_popup_post":"1","show_author_box":"0","show_post_related":"1","show_inline_post_related":"1"}],"override_image_size":"0","image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post":"0","trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post":"0","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","sponsored_post_name":"","sponsored_post_url":"","sponsored_post_logo_enable":"0","sponsored_post_logo":"","sponsored_post_desc":""},"jnews_primary_category":{"id":""},"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":{"override_view_counter":"0","view_counter_number":"0","override_share_counter":"0","share_counter_number":"0","override_like_counter":"0","like_counter_number":"0","override_dislike_counter":"0","dislike_counter_number":"0"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,27],"tags":[206,154,187],"class_list":["post-1790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","category-west-africa","tag-coup-in-mali","tag-ibrahim-boubacar-keita","tag-mali"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1790","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1790"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1790\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}