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Mali Unveils Plan for Government, Pledges Jihadist Talks

Mali's interim government said on Friday, Feb. 19, that it would pursue dialogue with jihadists and stage elections, amid fears that it is dawdling on previous promises. Presenting a plan for government in the capital Bamako, six months after a military coup in the Sahel state, Interim Prime Minister Moctar Ouane said he would make "every effort" to organize free and fair elections by the end of his mandate. Young military officers ousted President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita on Aug. 18 after months of protest driven by his failure to solve Mali's long-running jihadist conflict, and perceived corruption. The officers subsequently handed over to a civilian interim government between September and October, under the threat of international sanctions.

That government is meant to reform the constitution and decentralize power in the vast and ethnically diverse country, as well as hold national elections by the end of its 18-month mandate.

But there is growing disenchantment with the interim government's slow pace of reforms, which is fueled by accusations that figures with army links dominate the post-coup government.

Ouane underlined on Friday that he would press ahead with reform plans and return the country to democratic rule.

Swathes of Mali lie outside of state control, with the government struggling to quell a jihadist insurgency that first emerged in 2012 and has cost the lives of thousands of people.

Ouane said the government would recruit an additional 25,000 soldiers and redeploy forces across the national territory, a task he characterized as "arduous, but not impossible".

The government also wants to disband the self-defense militias that have sprung up in lawless parts of the country.

Ouane added that he will pursue mediation with radical groups in a bid to curb the fighting -- a policy that puts him at odds with France, which has ruled out dialogue.

France, Mali's former colonial ruler, has 5,100 troops deployed across the Sahel region.

French President Emmanuel Macron also pledged this month to "decapitate" al-Qaeda-linked insurgent groups in the semi-arid region. WI

SOURCE: AFRICANEWS

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PNP Wins Landslide Election in Turks and Caicos Islands

Businessman Charles Washington Misick led the Progressive National Party (PNP) to a landslide 14-to-1 victory over the incumbent People's Democratic Movement (PDM) in the Turks and Caicos Islands general elections held on Friday, Feb. 19, 2021. Supervisor of Elections Dudley Lewis confirmed on Saturday, Jan. 20, that the PNP won 9 of the 10 electoral district seats and all 5 of the At Large seats. PDM leader Sharlene Cartwright-Robinson, who was elected the country's first female premier in 2016, lost her seat. Former health minister Edwin Astwood, who won the Grand Turk South seat, was the only successful PDM candidate.

The 70-year-old Misick is a former chief minister and brother of former premier Michael Misick.

During a pre-Election Day virtual rally on the night of Thursday, Feb. 18, Misick said "every survey in the last two weeks points to a PNP victory".

He told viewers he will be sworn in as the next premier on Monday, then on Tuesday he will submit the names of Cabinet ministers to Governor Nigel Dakin and have a "fully-functioning" PNP government by Wednesday. "I can feel victory in my bones! I can appreciate, and I am thankful, for the confidence that I see that you the people of TCI are willing to place in my leadership and the PNP," Misick predicted. “We are about to witness the end of an ineffective government whose meandering has left you demoralized, but take courage because you have a reason now to hope and that hope is because of the vote that you will mark for the Progressive National Party (PNP)." WI THE WASHINGTON INFORMER / WWW.WASHINGTONINFORMER.COM