{"id":11862,"date":"2012-04-11T22:31:00","date_gmt":"2012-04-12T02:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theredphoenixapl.org\/?p=11862"},"modified":"2012-04-11T22:31:00","modified_gmt":"2012-04-12T02:31:00","slug":"in-hiding-mali-president-issues-resignation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/2012\/04\/in-hiding-mali-president-issues-resignation\/","title":{"rendered":"In Hiding, Mali President Issues Resignation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/redphoenixnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/nmla.png\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11863\" title=\"nmla\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/redphoenixnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/nmla.png?resize=320%2C305\" alt=\"\" width=\"320\" height=\"305\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\"><strong>Interim President Expected Soon as Junta Also Promises to Step Down<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\"><strong>by Jason Ditz<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Malian President Amadou Toumani Toure<\/span> <span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/official-malis-president-hands-resignation-181316999.html;_ylt=AlyMgK04ZLy8VqsHkIKpFkdvaA8F;_ylu=X3oDMTNlMHU1aW83BG1pdAMEcGtnA2I2NDViY2RjLWQxMjUtM2Y3Zi05Y2FlLTE2NGExMTE2NDMwOARwb3MDMQRzZWMDbG5fQWZyaWNhX2dhbAR2ZXIDMmY1OGRkMzAtODFhNy0xMWUxLWJmZmYtMjdjNzk2YzcwYzE1;_ylv=3\"><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\">issued a formal letter of resignation Sunday<\/span><\/a><\/span><span style=\"color:#000000;\"> from his undisclosed hiding place, weeks after being deposed in a military coup.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">The move is significant, coming just one day after the<\/span> <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/mali-junta-sees-civilian-government-days-145525981.html\"><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\">military junta had reiterated its intention to hand power to an interim civilian government within<\/span><\/a> <span style=\"color:#000000;\">the next few days. Toure\u2019s resignation would allow for a new interim president.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Toure\u2019s<\/span> <span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/news.antiwar.com\/2012\/03\/21\/mali-soldiers-seize-state-media-attack-palace-in-coup-bid\/\"><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\">government was ousted in a coup on March 21 by soldiers unhappy<\/span><\/a> <\/span><span style=\"color:#000000;\">with the failing effort to crush a secessionist movement in the north. Since the junta took over, the Tuareg secessionists have conquered more than half of the country and<\/span> <span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/news.antiwar.com\/2012\/04\/06\/malis-tuareg-fighters-declare-independence-in-north\/\"><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\">declared an independent state called Azawad<\/span><\/a><\/span><span style=\"color:#000000;\">. The rebels, trained by Libya\u2019s Gadhafi regime and flush with weapons from his stockpiles after its overthrow, made quick work of taking northern cities.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Mali\u2019s neighbors condemned the coup and imposed massive sanctions on the junta, which has forced them to agree to quickly transfer power. Its unclear what, if anything, the junta or a new civilian president intend to do about Azawad, <span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/news.antiwar.com\/2012\/04\/06\/au-west-spurn-northern-mali-independence\/\"><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\">as most of the international community has rejected Tuareg independence<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color:#000000;\">. It seems unlikely Mali has the ability to reconquer the desert north after being run out by the rebels.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/news.antiwar.com\/2012\/04\/08\/in-hiding-mali-president-issues-resignation\/\"><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\">Fuente<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Interim President Expected Soon as Junta Also Promises to Step Down by Jason Ditz Malian President Amadou Toumani Toure issued a formal letter of resignation..<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38704,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,84],"tags":[228,197,242,244],"class_list":["post-11862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international","category-statements","tag-colonialism","tag-imperialism","tag-libya","tag-mali"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/redphoenix.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/nmla_11862_37b25.png?fit=320%2C305&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11862","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11862"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11862\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}