Mali government resigns after massacre, insecurity


  • World
  • Friday, 19 Apr 2019

Malian President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita attends a news conference after his working lunch with German Chancellor Angela Merkel at the Chancellery in Berlin, Germany February 8, 2019. REUTERS/Michele Tantussi

BAMAKO (Reuters) - Mali's prime minister and his whole government resigned on Thursday, four weeks after a massacre of some 160 Fulani herders by an ethnic vigilante group shocked the nation.

"The President accepts the resignation of the prime minister and that of the members of government," a statement from President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita's office said.

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