BAMAKO – Mali Prime Minister Choguel Maiga has been ordered by his physician to relaxation after months of intense exertion, his workplace mentioned on Saturday, whereas an adviser denied media reviews that he had been hospitalised after struggling a stroke.
“After 14 months of working with out a break, the prime minister, head of presidency, Choguel Kokalla Maiga was positioned on compelled relaxation by his physician,” his workplace mentioned on its Fb web page.
“He'll resume his actions subsequent week, God-willing.”
Paris-based Jeune Afrique journal first reported that Maiga had suffered a stroke, citing sources near him. An adviser to Maiga, reached by Reuters, denied this.
Mali’s ruling junta named Maiga, a former opposition chief, as prime minister of the transitional authorities it leads in June of final yr. The junta got here to energy in an August 2020 coup and has promised to organise democratic elections in 2024.
Maiga has been one of many authorities’s most outspoken voices in repeated public rows with West African neighbours and worldwide companions who've criticised its army cooperation with Russian mercenaries and repeated election delays.
Earlier on Saturday, the U.N. peacekeeping mission in Mali introduced it will resume troop rotations on Monday, one month after Malian authorities suspended them and accused international troopers of coming into the nation with out permission.
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