Ibrahim Boubacar Keita News

Mali President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita resigned on Tuesday and dissolved parliament hours after mutinying soldiers detained him at gunpoint. Looking tired and wearing a surgical mask, Keita resigned in a brief address broadcast on state television after troops seized him along with Prime Minister Boubou Cisse and other top officials. U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres called for the immediate release of Keita and the other detainees.

Mali President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita and top government officials were detained on Tuesday by mutinying soldiers in the capital Bamako on Tuesday. This plunged the country already facing a jihadist insurgency and mass protests deeper into crisis. Keita`s detention at his residence in southwestern Bamako followed hours of uncertainty after soldiers mutinied in the morning at the Kati military base outside Bamako.

France has suffered multiple attacks by Islamist militants in the past two years losing 230 civilians.

Rapid intervention force of Senegalese troops will soon be deployed in central Mali

The group of Algerian jihadist and al Qaeda ally Mokhtar Belmokhtar claimed responsibility, in a statement, for the suicide bombing.

President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita ordered three days of national mourning following the attack, the worst in the country in recent years.

Officials have yet to identify the two assailants killed in the attack, whose photographs were broadcast on state media Monday.

The emergency was declared following a jihadist attack on a hotel in the capital Bamako that left least 27 people dead.