The public prosecutor’s office in the capital Bamako said in a statement that six people were under investigation for “plotting against the government, criminal association, insulting the head of state and complicity”. Five of the six have been detained in custody, except for Cisse, whose whereabouts are unknown, the public prosecutor said. But disenchantment at the slow pace of reforms is growing, fuelled byaccusations that figures with army links dominate the body. In its statement, the prosecutor’s office did not use the term “attempted coup” as the attorneys did. In the runup to their arrest, social media said there had been a scheme to “destabilise” Mali’s post-coup transitional institutions.

Source: The North Africa Journal December 31, 2020 18:22 UTC