<span style="color: #222222;">Mali's Prime Minister has resigned along with his entire government yesterday after it came under mounting pressure over handling the violence in the restive Mopti region.</span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">The rage was rising especially after a massacre on March 23 in which 160 people were killed in the village of Ogossagou near the border with Burkina Faso.</span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">A statement from President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita's office said he had accepted Soumeylou Boubeye Maiga's resignation, along with those of his ministers.</span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">The statement said, a Prime Minister will be named very soon and a new government will be put in place after consultations with all political forces from both the ruling and opposition sides.</span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">Tens of thousands of people took to the streets of Bamako on April 5 to protest against the upsurge of violence, accusing the government of not doing enough to stop it.</span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">Mali has been struggling to restore stability since Islamist extremists linked to Al-Qaeda took control of the country's vast desert north in early 2012. </span><br />''