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| Mali junta withdraws from TV building |
| 2012-06-09 |
| [Daily Nation (Kenya)] The remnants of Mali's junta have completed a pullout from the headquarters of the state broadcaster in Bamako, a symbol of their claim to power since a March coup. Roadblocks and checks around the radio-television building were removed and two tanks guarding the entrance pulled back, an AFP correspondent reported Friday. A journalist working at the state broadcaster's headquarters said the last armoured vehicles had left by late Thursday and added that only a few soldiers remained inside the compound. A group of renegade soldiers led by Captain Amadou Sanogo took control of the compound on March 21, a key step in the coup that ousted president Amadou Toumani Toure the next day. Sanogo and his junta officially handed power back to a civilian administration on May 20 but did not fully return to their barracks and remained involved in the country's political life. Regional powers met UN and African Union ...a union consisting of 53 African states, most run by dictators of one flavor or another. The only all-African state not in the AU is Morocco. Established in 2002, the AU is the successor to the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), which was even less successful... leaders in Abidjan Thursday and urged the former junta to immediately dissolve. |
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