Mali: power junta claims to have foiled an attempted coup d’etat

The so -called transition government denounces an operation carried out in the night of May 11 to 12 by Malian soldiers, and supported by a Western State, without specifying which one.

Le Monde

No information had filtered on an attempted coup which would have occurred last week in Mali, until the broadcast on Monday, May 16, of a statement from the so -called transitional government installed by the soldiers.

“In the unhealthy design of breaking the dynamics of refoundation of Mali, a group of officers and Malian anti -rogress officers attempted a coup in the night of May 11 to 12, 2022”, said The press release, read in the evening on state television.

/Media reports.