Malian President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita has announced that he resigned from his position as leader of the West African country, saying he does not wish blood to be shed. This comes after a military mutiny that saw soldiers taking up arms and detaining the President as well as Prime Minister Boubou Cisse at a key base in Kati, a town close to Bamako. The latest developments come amid a weeks-long political crisis that has seen opposition protesters taking to the streets to demand the departure of Keita, accusing him of allowing the country's economy to collapse and mishandling a worsening security situation
To assist us on this we are joined by:
• Kassoum Coulibaly, Malian political expert
• Kwezi Mngqibisa, director of M4Insight
• Dr Mohamed Diatta is a researcher at the Institute for Security Studies
