West African leaders decided at an extraordinary summit on Sunday to suspend Mali from the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) bodies after a second coup in nine months by the poor Sahel country’s military.
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Mali ex-president Amadou Toumani Toure dies aged 72
Mali’s former president, Amadou Toumani Toure, who steered the Sahel nation to democracy and led it for a decade before being ousted in a coup, has died in Turkey aged 72.
Mali trial over 2015 Bamako attacks opens
A Malian court opened proceedings Tuesday against alleged Islamists who are accused of killing over two dozen people in attacks targeting foreigners in 2015, in a rare terror trial in the Sahel state.
Mali: N’daou and Coup leader, Goita sworn in as President, Vice President
Ba N’Daou, Mali’s former Defence Minister, has been sworn in as President of the transition government.
Mali negotiators back charter that could see soldier as interim president
Mali’s ruling junta pushed through a political charter on Saturday that could lead to the appointment of a soldier as interim president.
Mali junta postpones transfer of powers meeting as cracks emerge
Mali’s military junta on Saturday postponed the first meeting on the transfer of power after rising tensions with the group that sparked the August 18 coup.
Divisions emerge between Mali junta, opposition leaders
Tensions mounted on Saturday between Mali’s military junta and the country’s longtime political opposition after the coup leaders failed to invite prominent opposition figures to a planned forum on the country’s political future.
UN team meets Mali’s deposed president Keita following coup (VIDEO)
UN human rights officials met overnight with Mali’s ousted president Ibrahim Boubacar Keita and other officials who have been held by mutineers since a military coup earlier this week, the UN mission there said on Friday.
Emergency ECOWAS summit calls for reinstatement of Mali’s president
An emergency summit of the West African bloc ECOWAS called Thursday for the reinstatement of Ibrahim Boubacar Keita as Mali’s president after he was deposed in a military coup on Tuesday.
West African leaders begin talks on Mali crisis
Leaders of the West African group ECOWAS on Thursday began talks on Mali following a military coup that sent shockwaves around the region.