B PAUL LORGERIE and TIEMOKO DIALLO MALI's interim vice president, Colonel Assimi Goita, has announced that he had seized power after the transitional president and prime minister failed to consult him about the formation of a new government. He said elections would be held next year as planned. President Bah Ndaw and Prime Minister Moctar Ouane were arrested and taken to a military base outside the capital on Monday evening, prompting swift condemnation from international powers, some of which called it an "attempted coup". The two men were in charge of a transitional government created after a military coup in…