{"id":88687,"date":"2026-05-04T19:29:01","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T19:29:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=88687"},"modified":"2026-05-04T19:29:01","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T19:29:01","slug":"mali-leader-assimi-goita-assumes-role-of-defence-minister-after-attacks-kill-previous-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/05\/04\/mali-leader-assimi-goita-assumes-role-of-defence-minister-after-attacks-kill-previous-minister\/","title":{"rendered":"Mali leader Assimi Go\u00efta assumes role of defence minister after attacks kill previous minister"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AA22mC56.img?w=534&amp;h=300&amp;m=6&amp;x=399&amp;y=137&amp;s=181&amp;d=181\" alt=\"Mali's junta leader Assimi Goita attends a signing ceremony with Russian President following their talks at the Kremlin in Moscow on June 23, 2025.\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u200bThe leader of Mali&#8217;s military government, Assimi Go\u00efta, has taken over as defence minister after the military officer who previously \u200bfilled \u200cthe role was killed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/news\/world\/mali-leader-assimi-go%C3%AFta-assumes-role-of-defence-minister-after-attacks-kill-previous-minister\/ar-AA22mprn?ocid=msedgntp&amp;pc=HCTS&amp;cvid=69f8ef888be5491e9a2b50a1644e7460&amp;ei=86\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>\u200bThe leader of Mali&#8217;s military government, Assimi Go\u00efta, has taken over as defence minister after the military officer who previously \u200bfilled \u200cthe&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":88688,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-88687","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Assimi-Goita.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88687"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88687\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88689,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88687\/revisions\/88689"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}