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Mali's one-year transition back to democratic rule got off to a shaky start on Tuesday amid fears that the process may be derailed after president Dioncounda Traore was attacked by angry protesters. The 15-nation Economic Community of West African States mediators of the transition deal threatened sanctions against those responsible for the attack, which they said cast a shadow over
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Bamako - The 15-state West African bloc Ecowas warned on Tuesday it would punish those responsible for orchestrating violence after hundreds of protesters stormed Mali's presidential palace and beat up interim leader Dioncounda Traore. Monday's attack on Traore was the latest setback for efforts to stabilise Mali after a March 22 coup and a subsequent rebellion by northern separatists and
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The transitional president of Mali has been admitted to hospital after protesters reportedly burst into his office and beat him. According to BBC, Traore was unconscious when he arrived at hospital. AFP reports that hundreds of demonstrators stormed the headquarters of the general secretariat next to the presidential palace because they were angry at his appointment. The army told BBC
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BAMAKO, Mali (AP) — Demonstrators forced their way into the office of Mali's interim president on Monday and attacked the elderly leader, who was later brought to a local hospital unconscious, a witness and one of the president's collaborators said. Dioncounda Traore was brought into the Point G Hospital with an injury to the head, said Sekou Yattara, a medical
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Leaders of a coup in Mali said they respect a decision by the West African bloc ECOWAS that interim president Dioncounda Traore must head the transition until general elections. "Dioncounda Traore will remain in power to lead the transition" and "talks will continue about (the implementation of) accompanying measures", a military official at the putschists' headquarters at Kati outside Bamako
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The parliament in Mali on Friday passed a law granting amnesty to the leaders of the March coup that plunged what was considered one of Africa's democratic success stories into chaos. The text, which must be signed by the president before becoming law, was part of an agreement signed by the putschists and west African bloc ECOWAS on April 6
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West Africa's mediator for Mali has begun talks with the Islamist and Tuareg rebel groups who seized the north of the country after a coup in March, officials said on Thursday. The mediator, Burkina Faso President Blaise Compaore, "has begun consultations with the different armed groups with a view to lay out an agenda to get out of the crisis
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Mali's interim President Dioncounda Traore on Wednesday rejected a proposal by a former junta which staged a coup in March for a national convention to choose a caretaker head of state. "It's a proposal but I don't think this is a solution, in any case, not a solution that has been agreed to in a deal signed by the former
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Mali's interim leader Dioncounda Traore will hold talks with Ivory Coast President Alassane Ouattara Wednesday, as a post-coup political crisis drags on in his country, officials said. "The president will go to Abidjan this afternoon for consultations," said a source from Traore's communication team. The Ivorian presidency said the two leaders would meet at 1700 GMT. Ouattara is the current
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Bamako - Two envoys from West African regional bloc Ecowas were to return to Mali on Tuesday, days after leaving the country following the breakdown of talks with coup leaders. Djibril Bassole, Burkina Faso's foreign minister, and Adama Bictogo, Ivory Coast's minister for African integration, were scheduled to fly to Bamako on Tuesday in order to revive talks with junta
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Hundreds of residents of Gao in northern Mali took to the streets Monday to protest against the Tuareg rebels, Islamists and an Al-Qaeda group that took control of the city after a March coup, witnesses told AFP. "Hundreds of civilians are protesting by burning tyres throughout the city," government worker Ousmane Telly told AFP, adding that members of the armed
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West Africa's 15-nation Ecowas bloc threatened on Monday to impose new sanctions on Mali's coup leaders and their allies, accusing them of blocking a return to civilian rule and further destabilising the divided nation. Mali's neighbours and donors are furious that the officers who led a March 22 coup are still meddling in politics despite a pledge to stand down.
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Mali National soccer team head coach Alain Giresse has tendered his resignation barely less than a month before the region’s World Cup qualifiers kick off. The former France international led Mali to third place at this year’s African Nations Cup finals but said he had rejected a new contract offer which would have taken him through the qualifiers for the
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Washington - The US State Department on Friday called on the officer who led a military coup in Mali in March to step aside and allow for the full return to civilian rule. The State Department said the coup leaders had undermined democracy and hampered the West African nation's ability to respond to the humanitarian crisis in northern Mali. "A
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An Islamist group that abducted seven Algerian diplomats in Mali has warned Algiers that if it fails to meet its demands within 30 days, the hostages' lives will be in danger. "We are issuing an ultimatum of less than 30 days to the Algerian government to meet our demands, or the lives of the hostages will be in great danger,"
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Bamako - Administrators and parents say schools have reopened in the city of Timbuktu for the first time since an Islamic faction seized control of the tourist destination last month and is working to impose Shari'ah law. Mahmoud Djitteye, a member of the school district in Timbuktu, said that a small number of students headed to school Monday. He said
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About a hundred fighters from across North Africa have joined the ranks of an Al-Qaeda offshoot which now dominates northern Mali, a Malian defence ministry official said on Sunday. "According to our figures, about 100 north Africans, essentially from Algeria, Tunisia and Libya, have joined the ranks of Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb," a Malian defence ministry official told AFP.
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Bamako - The north African offshoot of al-Qaeda now dominates in northern Mali, which fell into rebel hands in March, regional security sources said Saturday. "Today it is al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb which occupies a dominant position in the three areas of northern Mali thanks to its alliance with the Islamic Ansar Dine group and the influx of Tunisian,
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Mali's interim prime minister on Wednesday slammed repeated "attempts to destabilise the country," a day after a failed counter-coup by forces loyal to ousted president Amadou Toumani Toure. Tensions remained high at one of the counter-coup's targets, the national TV and radio station ORTM. On Wednesday, staff in the state broadcaster's building were forced to evacuate by troops fighting for
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Bamako - West African leaders were set to discuss the turmoil in crisis-hit Mali at a summit on Thursday after soldiers who overthrew an elected government in March defeated a counter-coup this week. Gunfire was again heard in the tense capital Bamako on Wednesday, two days after bloody clashes at the state TV and radio station, the airport and the
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There was gunfire overnight Tuesday in Mali's capital after the military junta said it had put down a rebellion by parachutists loyal to deposed President Amadou Tourmani Touré. The situation in Bamako was unstable on Tuesday, according to RFI's website in French, after heavy weapons fire was heard overnight. Coup leader Captain Amadou Haya Sanago promised that the agreement on
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The soldiers who staged a putsch in Mali five weeks ago said Tuesday they had defeated a counter-coup by foreign-backed forces loyal to the ousted president in overnight fighting that left 14 dead. Gunfire had erupted at the national television and radio station, the airport and at the garrison town near the capital Bamako that is the headquarters of the
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Since January, various groups of Tuareg rebels in Mali have come together in an attempt to administer a new northern state called Azawad. While this was announced on Apr. 6, the rebel grouping's control of the region remains questionable, and the roots behind the conflict, complex. After the colonial French departed in 1960, the region was carved up and the
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BAMAKO, Mali (AP) — Soldiers loyal to the former government tried to stage a countercoup in Mali on Monday, a spokesman for Mali's military junta said. "They are trying to take control of the airport right now, but we will fend them off," said junta spokesman . He said the anti-junta forces have the support of mercenaries from the region.
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Bamako - A leading human rights watchdog says that all parties to the conflict in north Mali have committed war crimes including summary executions, rape and the use of child soldiers this month. Human Rights Watch said on Monday that Tuareg rebels raped young girls, Islamist militants carried out public floggings and government forces arbitrarily detained ethnic Tuaregs. Malian government
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