{"id":12953,"date":"2020-07-17T00:05:21","date_gmt":"2020-07-16T22:05:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/2020\/07\/17\/is-mali-back-to-the-brink-pressure-on-president-adds-to-regional-turmoil\/"},"modified":"2020-07-17T00:05:21","modified_gmt":"2020-07-16T22:05:21","slug":"is-mali-back-to-the-brink-pressure-on-president-adds-to-regional-turmoil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/2020\/07\/17\/is-mali-back-to-the-brink-pressure-on-president-adds-to-regional-turmoil\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Mali back to the brink? Pressure on president adds to regional turmoil"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Why has the tide turned against Mali&rsquo;s\u00a0President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita? The central authority in Bamako finds itself arguably weaker than at any time since 2013,\u00a0when French intervention stopped radical insurgents trying to swoop down from the north. Most recently, there have been massacres of both soldiers and civilians throughout the Sahel. From the March kidnapping of Malian\u00a0opposition leader Soumaila Ciss\u00e9 to deadly protests in the capital and the role of influential imam Mahmoud Dicko, Fran\u00e7ois Picard&rsquo;s panel looks at why the latest crisis has France and the entire region on edge.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why has the tide turned against Mali&rsquo;s\u00a0President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita? The central authority in Bamako finds itself arguably weaker than at any time since 2013,\u00a0when French intervention stopped radical insurgents trying to swoop down from the north. Most recently, there have been massacres of both soldiers and civilians throughout the Sahel. From the March kidnapping &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4],"class_list":["post-12953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","","category-headlines","tag-africa","tag-afrique"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12953"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12953\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}