Bamako, 21 Mar The former Malian Prime Minister, Soumeylou Boubeye Maïga, who has been held in pre-trial detention since last August due to corruption, died today in a clinic in Bamako at the age of 67 due to illness, according to his family sources. The sources explained that due to the deterioration of his state of health, the former prime minister was admitted several days ago to a private clinic in the Malian capital but the doctors were unable to save his life. His family and his political co-religionists asked to be transferred abroad for medical treatment, but the request was not answered by the military junta, in power since the August 2020 coup d'état. Boubeye Maïga, who presided over the Malian Executive between 2017 and 2019, was arrested on 26 September for his alleged involvement in 2014 in the controversial corrupt purchase of a presidential plane that cost nearly 30 million euros. The arrest of the Malian politician, who led the Alliance for Solidarity in Mali (ASMA) party, came just days after the president of the transition in Mali, Colonel Assimi Goita, announced a “major campaign” against corruption. Boubeye Maïga was in the Defence portfolio in 2014 when the controversial acquisition of the presidential plane broke out for the first time. The case was closed in 2018 but the Malian justice decided to open it again two years later. The United Nations Mission in Mali (Minusma, deployed in the country since 2013) today tweeted its “sadness” at the death of the former prime minister and conveyed its condolences to his family and the Malian people. Since 2012, Mali has been experiencing a complex situation of insecurity, especially in the north and center, where several local terrorist groups operate. An aggravated situation with two successive coups d'état in August 2020 and May 2021 and the withdrawal from the country of French anti-terrorist troops. CHIEF ms-id
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