{"id":916816,"date":"2022-01-16T18:03:49","date_gmt":"2022-01-16T18:03:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/news\/2022\/01\/16\/breaking-former-powerful-african-country-president-is-dead\/"},"modified":"2022-01-16T18:03:49","modified_gmt":"2022-01-16T18:03:49","slug":"breaking-former-powerful-african-country-president-is-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/16\/breaking-former-powerful-african-country-president-is-dead\/","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING: Former Powerful African Country President is Dead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<article>\n<p>This afternoon, we have received reports from Mali that indicate the former President of the country is dead.<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/438c3b828f314024a0faf0b57cc04afd\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Picture courtesy. Mali President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita with Uhuru Kenyatta during a past event in Nairobi.<\/p>\n<p>The Malian President had been in power for a long time until he was ousted in a coup that saw him almost lose his life in the incident that happened a couple of years ago.<\/p>\n<p>Ibrahim Boubcar Keita, died in a hospital this afternoon after being taken to the institution following a bout of illness that had attacked him.<\/p>\n<p>Family of the former president has confirmed the news terming the death unfortunate and a blow to the country after Ibrahim Boubacar ruled the country for many years.<\/p>\n<p>The illness that had been afflicting the Former President has not yet been disclosed by the family at this moment.<\/p>\n<p>During his reign, Ibrahim Boubacar enjoyed a close and healthy relationship with the country of Kenya and President Uhuru Kenyatta.<\/p>\n<p>The former president has died at the age of 76 after having ruled Mali for many years before being ousted in a coup.<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/b5c42e9ad78d443280610ba986b891b8\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Source.<\/p>\n<p>Content created and supplied by: KimaniOsoro21 (via  Opera<br \/>\nNews )<\/p>\n<\/article>\n<p class=\"copyright hide\">\n<span class=\"content\">    ,  .   ,     .       () , , , , , , , , .      \/ ,  and\/or  .     ,  , and\/or  ,      and\/or     <\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"see-more\"><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<section class=\"tags\">\nAfrican Country<br \/>\nIbrahim Boubacar<br \/>\nIbrahim Boubacar Keita<br \/>\nMali<br \/>\nMalian<br \/>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This afternoon, we have received reports from Mali that indicate the former President of the country is dead. Picture courtesy. Mali President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita with Uhuru Kenyatta during a past event in Nairobi. The Malian President had been in power for a long time until he was ousted in a coup that saw him [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-916816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/916816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=916816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/916816\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=916816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=916816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=916816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}