{"id":11880,"date":"2012-04-12T22:44:36","date_gmt":"2012-04-13T02:44:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theredphoenixapl.org\/?p=11880"},"modified":"2012-04-12T22:44:36","modified_gmt":"2012-04-13T02:44:36","slug":"new-mali-leader-sworn-in-vows-total-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/2012\/04\/new-mali-leader-sworn-in-vows-total-war\/","title":{"rendered":"New Mali Leader Sworn in, Vows \u2018Total War\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/redphoenixnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/mali_map_2010worldfactbook_300_1.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11881\" title=\"mali_map_2010worldfactbook_300_1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/redphoenixnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/mali_map_2010worldfactbook_300_1.jpg?resize=300%2C321\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"321\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\"><strong>by Jason Ditz<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"color:#000000;\"><strong><em>Insists Mali Will Never Negotiate With Tuaregs<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">His term is likely to be fairly short, as officials talk about holding elections soon, but<\/span> <span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dw.de\/dw\/article\/0,,15876677,00.html?maca=en-aa-top-861-rdf\"><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\">Dioncounda Traore was sworn in today as Mali\u2019s interim president, promising \u201cto wage a total, relentless war.\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Traore officially replaces Amadou Toure,<\/span> <span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/news.antiwar.com\/2012\/04\/08\/in-hiding-mali-president-issues-resignation\/\"><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\">who issued a resignation from an undisclosed hiding place<\/span><\/a><\/span> <span style=\"color:#000000;\">last week, and junta leader Capt. Amadou Sanogo, who led military forces in seizing the country late last month.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Traore\u2019s swearing in tentatively put the length of his term at 40 days, and he promised that he would never allow any negotiations with Azawad, the northern half of Mali that declared independence after crushing the Malian military.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Despite his promises of \u201ctotal war\u201d it is unclear that Mali will be able to do anything about the Azawad secession, as the Tuareg secessionists have decisively defeated the Mali military in every clash. Since last month\u2019s coup was mostly a response to a failure to crush the Tuaregs, Traore will likely keep giving lip-service to reclaiming the territory, but tread lightly in attempting to actually reconquer it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/news.antiwar.com\/2012\/04\/12\/new-mali-leader-sworn-in-vows-total-war\/\"><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\">Fuente<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Jason Ditz Insists Mali Will Never Negotiate With Tuaregs His term is likely to be fairly short, as officials talk about holding elections soon,..<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38701,"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":[244],"class_list":["post-11880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international","category-statements","tag-mali"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/redphoenix.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/mali_map_2010worldfactbook_300_1_11880_7cbec.jpg?fit=300%2C321&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11880","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=11880"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11880\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}