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BBC
| 1 year ago
I'm free and in Mali, says ousted leader Toure 28 March 2012 Last updated at 18:54 ET Toppled Malian President Amadou Toumani Toure has told reporters he is still in the country, a week after being deposed in a military coup. Mr Toure's whereabouts...
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Epoch Times
| 1 year ago
March 28, 2012 Soldiers (L) watch and protect people queuing at a gas station on March 24, 2012 in Bamako. (Habibou Kouyate/AFP/Getty Images) Despite condemnation from world and regional powers, thousands of demonstrators took to the streets to...
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News 24
| 1 year ago
Mali's ousted leader Amadou Toumani Toure, whose whereabouts has been unknown since he was overthrown on March 22, on Wednesday told AFP he was safe in Bamako and was not being held by the junta. "I am indeed in Bamako, and thank God my family and I...
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Guardian Unlimited
| 1 year ago
Associated Press in Bamako Crowds gather in Bamako in support of Mali's coup leaders. Photograph: Habibou Kouyate/AFP/Getty Images Several thousand people took to the streets of Mali 's capital on Wednesday in support of last week's military takeover...
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International Business Times
| 1 year ago
Regional leaders at the summit highlighted the importance of protecting the democratically-elected government in Mali and restoring constitutional order to the state. All member states were urged to impose a travel ban on Mali and to increase...
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BBC
| 1 year ago
They have also announced elections in which those who took part in the coup would be barred from standing, but have not set a date for them. Several thousand people rallied in the capital Bamako on Wednesday in support of the new military leaders.
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International Business Times
| 1 year ago
Articles The coup, seen as a setback to fragile democratic gains in Africa, was triggered by army anger at President Amadou Toumani Toure's handling of a northern Tuareg rebellion that in recent weeks has gained ground and inflicted losses on the...
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Al Jazeera
| 1 year ago
22 Mali's coup leaders have announced a new constitution and pledged to hold elections even as the West African nation's neighbours sent a high-level delegation to lobby for the restoration of democracy...A statement read out on behalf of the coup...
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Leader Post Online
| 1 year ago
Thousands marched on Wednesday in support of Mali's coup leaders, who sought to quell fears they plan to cling to power by promising democracy and ruling out taking part in elections. The international community has shunned the regime which took over...
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Mail and Guardian
| 1 year ago
Mali's junta on Tuesday announced a new Constitution that rules its members out of upcoming elections, seeking to show it will not cling to power as West African leaders from Ecowas planned a mediation visit. Five days after the internationally...
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Zee News
| 1 year ago
Mali coup leader trained with US military' Washington: Mali's coup leader, Captain Amadou Sanogo, attended at least five training courses with the American military since 1998, the Pentagon confirmed Wednesday. While releasing details of the training,...
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Al Jazeera
| 1 year ago
31 Mali's neighbours have threatened to use sanctions and a readiness to use military force to dislodge those behind last week's coup, urging them to quickly hand back power to civilian rulers. Tuesday agreed to send a team of heads of state to...
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Leader Post Online
| 1 year ago
Businesses reopened and children returned to school Tuesday as Malians heeded a call by the junta to return to work, but the putschists faced further pressure as west African leaders held emergency talks. The military rulers were trying to restore...
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AP Online
| 1 year ago
Mali (AP) — The heads of state of the countries neighboring Mali said Tuesday they want to send a "strong signal" to the mutinous soldiers who seized power last week, overturning over 20 years of democracy in this African nation.
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Voice of America
| 1 year ago
AP People chant in protest against the recent military coup, in Bamako, March 26, 2012. West African leaders are holding an emergency meeting in Ivory Coast to discuss Mali's political crisis following last week's military coup there.
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Russia Today
| 1 year ago
Last week's coup in Mali has further destabilized the situation in the African region, says Mikhail Margelov, the Kremlin's special envoy to Africa. Following the so-called Arab Spring the series of protests that swept through the Middle East and...
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All Africa
| 1 year ago
The AU Peace and Security Council "decided that Mali should be suspended... until effective restoration of constitutional order is achieved without delay," Paul Zolo, Nigeria's envoy to Ethiopia and the AU, told reporters. Zolo made the announcement...
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Al Jazeera English
| 1 year ago
36 Mali's new military leader has defended last week's coup in the west African nation, saying the president he deposed had failed the country. In an exclusive interview to Al Jazeera, army officer Amadou Sanogo also blamed the ousted government of...
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Al Jazeera English
| 1 year ago
26 Captain Amadou Sanogo, head of Mali's ruling military junta, has called on Tuareg fighters advancing in the north of the country to halt their campaign and hold talks. "We call on them already to cease hostilities and to come to the negotiating...
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United Press International
| 1 year ago
Last week's military coup in Mali, triggered by a Tuareg rebellion and ignited by fighters and weapons from Libya, underlines how deeply the fallout from the year-old string of Arab uprisings is spreading from North Africa to non-Arab West Africa. "...
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News 24
| 1 year ago
Malians marched in Bamako on Monday to protest against the junta while Tuareg rebels threatened to capture a key northern city, piling political and military pressure on the coup leaders. More than 1 000 people gathered in front of the stock exchange...
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The Guardian
| 1 year ago
Amadou Sanogo, the coup leader, maintains a tenuous grip on power. Photograph: Habibou Kouyate/AFP/Getty Images The US has "paused" military aid to Mali , a key ally against Islamist militants in the Sahel, a US diplomat has told the Guardian, in a...
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USA Today
| 1 year ago
Mali (AP) Demonstrators in Mali's capital are demanding a return to constitutional order days after mutinous soldiers claimed power in a coup. About a thousand people, including members of youth movements and political parties, gathered Monday in...
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Africa Headlines
| 1 year ago
Even as the capital city begins to regain a semblance of normalcy, the north of the country appears increasingly volatile. Monday marks the 21st anniversary of Mali's last-but-one coup d'etat...ATT would go on to preside over a challenging transition...
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Africa Headlines
| 1 year ago
Soldiers stormed the presidential palace in Bamako and announced that they had seized control of the country, in the process ousting president Amadou Toumani Toure a month before his term would legally end. The soldiers say their decision to...
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The Boston Globe
| 1 year ago
Niger Rebels taking advantage of a coup are negotiating with soldiers for a peaceful resolution in Mali's strategic northern garrison town of Kidal, according to the government and representatives of the Sahara's nomadic Tuareg people. Sources in...
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BBC
| 1 year ago
Thousands flee Mali after military coup 25 March 2012 Last updated at 18:17 ET Thousands of refugees are leaving the embattled West African country of Mali following a military coup...Many of the well-armed rebels have returned to Mali from Libya,...
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Arab News
| 1 year ago
Life in Bamako returned slowly to normal on Sunday after most mutinous soldiers left the streets, but rebels exploiting the army coup in Mali pushed toward three northern towns. Gas stations and market stalls reopened in the capital after a decrease...
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Canada.com
| 1 year ago
Malian soldiers Sunday repelled a fresh attack by Tuareg rebels in the north following a coup as the junta struggled to restore order after ousting the west African nation's president. The Tuareg had said they were advancing on the key northern town...
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Africa Headlines
| 1 year ago
The Minister posted on his Facebook page early Sunday morning that he and other ministry officials had been evacuated from Bamako by a Government of Kenya-chartered plane and that they had landed safely in Lagos, Nigeria. "Thank God!...We have...
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Sydney Morning Herald
| 1 year ago
Peter Ker March 26, 2012 Read later Soldiers and security in Bamako, Mali. The problems are a blow to the reputation of West Africa, which has become a hot spot for Australian miners in recent years. Australian mining companies will nervously watch...
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Africa Headlines
| 1 year ago
Relevant Links Abidjan A previous military takeover ushered in democracy. This time around, the soldiers are taking Mali in the opposite direction...Almost to the day 21 years ago, an ageing military dictator called Moussa Traore was facing a...
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Africa Headlines
| 1 year ago
Relevant Links Bamako A majority of political representatives have so far maintained their distance from the leaders of a coup that toppled the government earlier this week, but several religious and political personalities have already shown a...
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Africa Headlines
| 1 year ago
That was until Wednesday this week, when the army ousted Toure less than one month before the next presidential election. The fall-out of the Arab Spring has been the dominant security issue in the Maghreb for past months, while Boko Haram has held...
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Africa Headlines
| 1 year ago
Several ministers and leading political figures were arrested. At least four citizens have died, and soldiers have looted shops and petrol stations. The immediate human and material casualties are just the first consequence of this violent explosion...
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Zee News
| 1 year ago
Commission, the UN Secretary General's special representative for West Africa, Said Djinnit, said by phone on Saturday. Mutinous low-ranking soldiers seized the presidential palace and Mali's state television this week, dissatisfied with President...
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Africa Headlines
| 1 year ago
President Kibaki said Kenya was doing all it can to secure the freedom of Kenyans in Bamako. Yesterday we also established that High Court Judge Philip Waki was not stranded in Sierra Leone following the Mali coup as reported in the Star on Friday...
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The Journal Gazette
| 1 year ago
Mali Mali's U.S.-trained coup leader said Saturday he is in control of the country, has no fears of a countercoup and wants peace talks with the rebels whose northern rebellion was the trigger that led him to oust a democratically elected president...
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Al Jazeera English
| 1 year ago
57 Main streets in the capital, Bamako, have been largely deserted after Thursday's coup [Reuters] The soldiers who toppled Mali's president earlier this week face growing isolation, even as the coup leader is trying to assure the public that he is...
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Zee News
| 1 year ago
Captain Amadou Sanogo, who appeared exhausted, his voice hoarse, stressed the importance of unity for the West African nation in an exclusive interview with a news agency at Kati garrison outside Bamako, the capital. What started there on Wednesday...
