{"id":4943,"date":"2017-08-18T23:55:25","date_gmt":"2017-08-18T23:55:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sahelien.com\/en\/?p=4943"},"modified":"2025-12-20T20:08:47","modified_gmt":"2025-12-20T20:08:47","slug":"mali-the-president-of-the-republic-suspends-reform-of-the-constitution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sahelien.com\/en\/mali-the-president-of-the-republic-suspends-reform-of-the-constitution\/","title":{"rendered":"Mali : the President of the Republic &#8220;suspends&#8221; reform of the Constitution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>In Mali, President Ibrahim Boubacar Ke\u00efta announced on Friday August 18, that he would &#8220;suspends&#8221; the constitutional review after strong protests in the country for more than a month.<br \/>\n<\/strong><br \/>\n&#8220;In the current climate, the explanations (on the constitutional review) are struggling to be heard and accepted. So I decided in all responsibility to suspend the constitutional review&#8221;, declared the President of the Republic in an address on national television.<\/p>\n<p>In the afternoon, Ibrahim Boubacar Ke\u00efta received a delegation from the &#8220;An te A Bana&#8221; platform after mediation of religious leaders and traditional authorities.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I regret the excesses of language and behavior&#8221; which threatened &#8220;to shake the national cohesion&#8221;, said the president. The review project had been the subject of intense protests, mainly in Bamako, where thousands of people had demonstrated on numerous occasions.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is up to me to take steps to engage in an inclusive and dispassionate dialogue&#8221;, the president concluded in a speech calling on the Nation to work for the maintenance of social cohesion.<\/p>\n<a  class=\"vc_btn vc_btn-black vc_btn-sm vc_btn_square \" href=\"#\">Aboubacar Dicko<\/a>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Mali, President Ibrahim Boubacar Ke\u00efta announced on Friday August 18, that he would &#8220;suspends&#8221; the constitutional review after strong protests in the country for more than a month. &#8220;In the current climate, the explanations (on the constitutional review) are struggling to be heard and accepted. So I decided in all responsibility to suspend the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":4945,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,16],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-4943","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mali","8":"category-politique"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sahelien.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sahelien.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sahelien.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sahelien.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sahelien.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4943"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sahelien.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4943\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4946,"href":"https:\/\/sahelien.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4943\/revisions\/4946"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sahelien.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sahelien.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sahelien.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sahelien.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}