2021 Malian coup d'état

2021 Malian coup d'état
	Part of the Mali War and the Coup Belt
Date	24 May 2021
Location	Mali
Result	Coup d'état successful Resignation of interim president Bah Ndaw and prime minister Moctar Ouane; Vice President Assimi Goïta named interim President by Constitutional Court of Mali; Mali suspended from ECOWAS, La Francophonie and the African Union; Choguel Kokalla Maïga named interim prime minister; France suspends joint military operations and national advisory missions with the Malian military from 3 June to 3 July 2021;
Belligerents
Government of Mali	Malian Armed Forces
Commanders and leaders
Bah Ndaw; Moctar Ouane; Souleymane Doucouré	Assimi Goïta

On the night of 24 May 2021, the Malian Army led by Vice President Assimi Goïta captured President Bah N'daw, Prime Minister Moctar Ouane and Minister of Defence Souleymane Doucouré. Assimi Goïta, the head of the junta that led the 2020 Malian coup d'état, announced that N'daw and Ouane were stripped of their powers and that new elections would be held in 2022. It is the country's third coup d'état in ten years, following the 2012 and 2020 military takeovers, with the latter having happened only nine months earlier.