Mali’s junta leader takes defence minister post after attack kills predecessor

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Gen. Assimi Goïta has been appointed Mali’s defence minister after the previous holder, Sadio Camara, was killed in a suicide truck bombing, a move aimed at consolidating power amid a mounting jihadist-separatist offensive and a broad security crisis in the Sahel.
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