Navy officers in Mali ousted the nation’s interim civilian leaders on Tuesday, establishing a brand new disaster for the Western African nation, simply 9 months after the earlier president was forced out in a military coup.

The leaders — Bah N’Daou, the president, and Moctar Ouane, the prime minister — had been appointed final yr to steer a transitional authorities to organize for brand new elections. They had been each detained by the army on Monday and brought to a base exterior the capital, Bamako. On Tuesday, they had been formally stripped of their duties, the army mentioned.

The elimination of the civilian leaders adopted a authorities reshuffle introduced by Mr. Ouane on Monday that sidelined some officers who had taken half in the coup that ousted the former president, Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta, in August. It additionally comes as staff in essential sectors of the financial system, together with bankers and civil servants, have been on strike since final week after failed wage negotiations with the earlier authorities.

Col. Assimi Goïta, who led the coup and had been serving as a vice chairman to Mr. N’Daou, mentioned on Tuesday in a press release read on public television by one among his advisers that Mr. N’Daou and Mr. Ouane had sought to “violate” the transition to a brand new civilian authorities.

In his assertion, Colonel Goïta mentioned that the brand new authorities had been shaped with out consulting him. The newly appointed protection minister, Souleymane Doucouré, was additionally detained, alongside Mr. N’Daou and Mr. Ouane.

Colonel Goïta mentioned that the transition course of would proceed and that elections could be held in 2022, as deliberate, however he didn’t present additional particulars.

The elimination of the interim leaders may additional destabilize Mali, the place insurgent and Islamist teams have managed massive swaths of territory within the north for nearly 10 years. Mr. Keïta, the previous president, was compelled by army officers to resign on state tv following weeks of protests in opposition to the federal government.

Mr. N’Daou and Mr. Ouane had been appointed in September to supervise an 18-month transition again to civilian rule after the coup.

The detentions on Monday drew widespread condemnation. The United Nations, the USA and the European Union had been among the many nations and organizations that issued a joint assertion denouncing the transfer as an “attempted coup” and calling for the leaders’ launch.

9 days after the coup in August, Mr. Keïta, the previous president, was launched from the identical army base the place Mr. N’Daou and Mr. Ouane had been taken and driven back to his home.

A delegation from Ecowas, the regional group of West African states that negotiated the appointment of the transitional leaders final yr, was headed to Bamako on Tuesday, in response to the joint assertion, which was launched earlier than the announcement of the ouster.