Col. Assimi Goita speaks to the press at the Malian Ministry of Defence in Bamako, Mali, on Aug. 19, 2020 after confirming his position as the president of the National Committee for the Salvation ...

Assimi Goita, an army colonel, ... Goita met high-level civil servants in Mali's capital Bamako before declaring himself as the leader of the 'National Committee for the Salvation of the People'.

Mali's military leader Gen Assimi Goïta has won the backing of key political allies to be declared president for the next five years. The 41-year-old, who has seized power twice, was named ...

BAMAKO, July 25, 2018—One morning unlike any other, Déboura Goita, wearing her backpack, gets off her blue, brand new bike to head toward the big shade tree in the Waki school yard in Kimparana, Ségou ...