A former Malian government official claimed responsibility Tuesday for embarrassing tweets from the president’s account which labelled the US assassination of Iranian commander Qassem Soleimani as a “fuck-up”. Malian President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita’s official Twitter account had posted Monday that “no one is around to tell Trump that he committed a fuck-up” by ordering the assassination. The Malian presidency account added that Trump “threatens world peace and has made of the US a rogue state”. But the government walked back from the comments on Monday night, saying the account had been “temporarily pirated by ill-intentioned individuals” and calling the posts “an unfortunate mistake”. His tweets were meant for his personal account and he had “no desire to be a nuisance,” Maiga said.

Source: Punch January 07, 2020 19:52 UTC