Mali’s President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita says he will prioritize tackling the surge in violence in his country.
In a speech at his inauguration on Tuesday he promised to address worsening state of insecurity in the west African nation.
Mali continues to suffer from attacks carried out by militant groups. Inter-ethnic clashes have also taken a toll on the country.
Since 2012 Mali has been in turmoil after Tuareg rebels and militants took over the desert north. French forces have tried to defeat them but the militants keep regrouping.
Keita who is beginning his second five-year term assures he will work hard in dealing with the state of violence.
President Keita won his second term after defeating main rival, the opposition candidate Soumaila Cisse in a run-off last month.
Hundreds of his supporters attended his swearing in ceremony in the capital Bamako. “This election is not the victory of one Malian against another, it is the victory of all of Mali,” Keita, 73 said.
Keita said he chooses “to place the re-establishment of peace and security at an absolute level of priority.”
Source: Africafeeds.com
