Keita, 76, led the country from 2013 until he was ousted from office in 2020.
Former President of Mali Ibrahim Boubacar Keita he died at the age of 76, his family said.
“President IBK died this morning at 09:00 GMT at his home,” Bamako, a relative of theirs, told AFP, using the initial letters of the former president, and several other relatives confirming his death.
The cause of death was not named.
Keita led West Africa from 2013 until his retirement informal removal in 2020.
He pledged to restore Mali’s prestige as a model of democracy in West Africa as he campaigned as a man of unity in his broken country, promising “no tolerance” for corruption.
He won the election in 2013 and was re-elected five years later. But the gradual change, the economic downturn and the decline in government services and schools, as well as the common perceptions of government corruption, prompted anti-Keita, which sparked mass protests in Bamako.
Soldiers who kidnapped Keita have criticized other countries for rejecting a promise to hold democratic elections in February as well. increase the transition time to state administration by the age of five.
In response, West Africa’s largest bloc, ECOWAS, said it would close the border with Mali and set up a sweep. financial sanctions.
Mali has been struggling to recover since 2012, when Tuareg militants and militant groups took over two-thirds of the country, prompting colonial France to intervene to temporarily defeat them.
Ethnic genocide and military atrocities became commonplace in Keita’s leadership, although thousands of French and international troops were deployed to form the armed forces.
