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Photo: Baba Ahmed / AP / TT
This summer, thousands of people gathered in the Malian capital, Bamako, to celebrate the ouster of President Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta. Stock Photography.
Sweden resumes aid payments to Mali. In addition, two million crowns are allocated to the Idea democracy institute for work on reforms in the country.
Payments to Mali were frozen in August this year after the country’s president was overthrown in a coup and a military junta seized power. The reason for the stoppage was ambiguity about how the country was governed and who had control over cash flows.
Now payments are resuming after an agreement has been reached that the transitional government will hand over a civilian government and return to a popular electoral board within 18 months, says Development Aid Minister Peter Eriksson (MP).
– Then it is also important that we are prepared to act and defrost this freezer and show that we are prepared to do things to participate in a process to reach a democratic solution.
Sweden too, through Idea, will work for reforms for a new constitution and a new electoral system.
– If we are to contribute, we must also contribute to creating stability, says Peter Eriksson.
President Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta was ousted on August 18 this year following extensive protests in the country against, among other things, corruption. Since then, former Colonel and Defense Minister Ba N’Daou has been sworn in as interim president.
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