His office said Maiga was suffering from burnout after 14 months of non-stop work.
His office said Mali Prime Minister Choguel Maiga was forced to rest by a doctor on Saturday after months of intense work.
“After 14 months of non-stop work, the prime minister, head of government, Choguel Kokalla Maiga has been forced to rest by a doctor,” his office said on its Facebook page on Saturday.
“He will resume his activities next week, God willing,” the statement added.
An adviser quoted by Reuters news agency denied earlier media reports in the Paris-based Jeune Afrique magazine that Maiga had been hospitalized after suffering a stroke.
Mali’s ruling military government appointed the former opposition leader as prime minister of the transitional government it leads last June, after military coup in August 2020.
Maiga has been one of the government’s most outspoken voices in repeated public controversies with West African neighbors and international partners, who have criticized military cooperation. conflicts with Russian mercenaries and several delays in elections.
ECOWAS, West Africa’s main economic and political bloc, pressed Mali to honor its pledge to hold presidential and legislative elections following a military coup in August 2020. The new leadership has promised will hold democratic elections in 2024.
Maiga has repeatedly condemned France for “abandoning” Mali in the conflict against armed groups in the country, which has been the focus of a bloody 10-year campaign by armed groups in the region.
Earlier, on Saturday, the United Nations peacekeeping mission in Mali announced it would resume troop rotations to its nearly 12,000-strong mission on Monday, a month after Malian authorities suspended them and accused them of being unable to do so. force foreign soldiers to enter without permission.
It said it would continue discussions with representatives from the mission, known as MINUSMA, on how to coordinate troop deployments.
Tensions have been running high between Mali and the UN since 49 soldiers from Ivory Coast, including members of the special forces, were killed. detained by the Malian government last month.
Mali said Ivory soldiers were not allowed to come to Mali and accused them of being mercenaries.
A MINUSMA spokesman told Reuters on Saturday that the mission and Malian authorities had agreed on a reasonable rotation procedure and that the mission’s request to resume rotation was accepted.
Relations between Mali and the donor countries remain strained. On Friday, Germany said it had suspend its military reconnaissance missionprovided intelligence to MINUSMA, after Malian authorities refused to clear the flight.
Mali’s foreign minister denied on Twitter that the government had done so and called on Germany to comply with the new mechanism for approving troop rotations.
Western powers constantly criticize Russian mercenaries working for controversial Moscow Wagner’s group deployed in Mali.
French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian accused Mercenaries plunder Mali’s resources in exchange for protecting the military government.
Russia is seen by a part of the population as a more effective ally in the fight against armed groups. In February, thousands of anti-French protesters People waving Russian flags and burning cardboard of French President Emmanuel Macron took to the streets of the capital Bamako to cheer the expulsion of the French ambassador.
Relations between Mali and the former colony deteriorated in January when the junta reverted to an agreement to hold elections in February and propose to stay in power until 2025.
Maiga’s transitional government says it will hold elections in 2024.
