The embraces were warm, and the words carefully chosen. On 29 July, Malian President Assimi Goïta welcomed his counterpart Bassirou Diomaye Faye to the Koulouba palace in Bamako, officially for a bilateral visit, but one whose significance goes far beyond relations between the two countries.
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