{"id":28936,"date":"2020-08-20T15:27:02","date_gmt":"2020-08-20T15:27:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/nigeria\/?p=28936"},"modified":"2020-08-20T15:27:02","modified_gmt":"2020-08-20T15:27:02","slug":"president-buhari-condemns-malis-coup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/president-buhari-condemns-malis-coup","title":{"rendered":"President Buhari Condemns Mali\u2019s Coup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Africa Press-Nigeria:<\/p>\n<p>President Muhammadu Buhari has condemned the unconstitutional removal of the democratically elected government of Mali by the country\u2019s military.<\/p>\n<p>He made the condemnation on his verified personal twitter handle, @MBuhari, on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>President Buhari asserted that Nigeria backs the international community\u2019s effort for wider consultations to speedily resolve the situation.<\/p>\n<p>Buhari tweeted: \u201cThe events in Mali are great setbacks for regional diplomacy, with grave consequences for the peace and security of West Africa. It is time for the unconstitutional \u2018authority\u2019 in Mali to act responsibly and ensure restoration of constitutional order, peace and stability.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNigeria strongly supports the efforts of ECOWAS Chairman, President Mahamadou Issoufou, for wider regional and continental consultations with ECOWAS, the AU and the UN, and the adoption of strong measures to bring a speedy resolution to the situation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA politically stable Mali is paramount and crucial to the stability of the sub-region. We must all join efforts, ECOWAS, the AU, the UN and other stakeholders, and work together until sanity returns to Mali with the restoration of Civil Administration.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"nxeoh nxeoh-clearfix nxeoh-post-inline nxeoh-float-center nxeoh-align-center nxeoh-column-1\">\n<div id=\"nxeoh-212370-1655287203\" class=\"nxeoh-container nxeoh-type-custom_code \" data-adid=\"212370\" data-type=\"custom_code\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa Press-Nigeria: President Muhammadu Buhari has condemned the unconstitutional removal of the democratically elected government of Mali by the country\u2019s military. He made the condemnation on his verified personal twitter handle, @MBuhari, on Thursday. President Buhari asserted that Nigeria backs the international community\u2019s effort for wider consultations to speedily resolve the situation. Buhari tweeted: \u201cThe [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":25899,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,29,14],"tags":[97,847],"class_list":["post-28936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-head-lines","category-policy","tag-buhari","tag-ecowas"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>President Buhari Condemns Mali\u2019s Coup - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Africa Press-Nigeria:President Muhammadu Buhari has condemned the unconstitutional removal of the democratically elected government of Mali by the country\u2019s\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/president-buhari-condemns-malis-coup\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"President Buhari Condemns Mali\u2019s Coup\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Africa Press-Nigeria:President Muhammadu Buhari has condemned the unconstitutional removal of the democratically elected government of Mali by the country\u2019s\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/president-buhari-condemns-malis-coup\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2020-08-20T15:27:02+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2020\/06\/muhammed-buhari-1140x570-1.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1140\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"570\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"alico\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"alico\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/president-buhari-condemns-malis-coup#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/president-buhari-condemns-malis-coup\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"alico\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/50afd2ef4f0e900bd0a176404a8484a7\"},\"headline\":\"President Buhari Condemns Mali\u2019s Coup\",\"datePublished\":\"2020-08-20T15:27:02+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/president-buhari-condemns-malis-coup\"},\"wordCount\":183,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/president-buhari-condemns-malis-coup#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2020\/06\/muhammed-buhari-1140x570-1.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Buhari\",\"ECOWAS\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"head lines\",\"Policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/president-buhari-condemns-malis-coup#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/president-buhari-condemns-malis-coup\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/president-buhari-condemns-malis-coup\",\"name\":\"President Buhari Condemns Mali\u2019s Coup - 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