What was Colonel Assimi Goïta thinking on the morning of 7 June, as he swapped his usual fatigues for the uniform of the commander of the Autonomous Special Forces Battalion of the Aguerrissement Centres (BAFS-CA), and took the oath of office as a military leader before the Supreme Court?
Had he then measured the significance of this new function when, with his left hand on the Constitution and his right hand raised to the sky, he swore: “Before God and the Malian people to respect the Constitution and the Transition Charter”? Did he, who had always preferred adventure on the perilous terrain of Mopti to the prestige of power, feel up to the task?
Seven months after the establishment of the second transitional government, the commitments made by Goïta on 16 September 2020 in Accra, during an extraordinary ECOWAS summit on Mali, in which he assured that the transition would last only
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