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| Mali Coup Leaders Order Soldiers Back to Barracks, Impose Curfew |
| 2012-03-23 |
| MaliÂ’s coup leaders ordered soldiers to return to barracks and imposed a curfew to halt vandalism on the streets of Bamako, the capital. The curfew will be from 6 p.m. to 6 a.m., Lieutenant Amadou Konare, spokesman for the National Committee for the Recovery of Democracy and the Restoration of the State, said yesterday on state television. All of the countryÂ’s borders are closed until further notice, he said. Army officers yesterday said they had toppled President Amadou ToureÂ’s government and suspended the constitution over the stateÂ’s handling of a Touareg rebellion in northern Mali. The military formed a transitional council that will organize elections and plans to restore power to a democratically elected leader, Konare said. Mali vies with Tanzania to be AfricaÂ’s third-biggest gold producer, after South Africa and Ghana. Captain Amadou Sanogo, the head of the transitional council, said the military is committed to fighting an uprising by the ethnic Touareg Azawad National Liberation Movement as well as fighters from al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb in northern Mali. |
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