Baba Ahmed, Author at Daily Hampshire Gazette

Malian police gather outside the Bourse du Travail where striking workers gathered to protest the arrest of President Bah N’Daw and Prime Minister Moctar Ouane by military personnel in Bamako, Mali, Tuesday.

Mali coup leader retakes government control

by Baba Ahmed Associated Press, and Krista Larson Associated PressMay 25, 2021

BAMAKO, Mali — The man who ousted Mali’s president from power last year regained control of the West African country Tuesday by deposing the president and prime minister of the transitional government, a move France decried as another coup…

FILE - In this Thursday Sept. 21, 2006, file photo, Mali's Minister for Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation Moctar Ouane addresses the 61st session of the United Nations General Assembly at the United Nations headquarters. Mutinous soldiers arrested Mali's transitional President Bah N’Daw and Prime Minister Ouane, Monday, May 24, 2021, hours after a government reshuffle left out two members of the junta that seized power in a coup nine months earlier in the West African nation, the African Union said late in the day. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II, File)

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Soldiers arrest Mali PM, president

by Baba Ahmed Associated Press, and Krista Larson Associated PressMay 24, 2021

Street vendors gather at Place de l'Independence in Mali's capital Bamako, Wednesday, Aug. 19, 2020, as life returns to normal one day after President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita was forced to resign in a military coup. Members of the international community already have strongly condemned Tuesday's events and have called for constitutional order to be restored. (AP Photo/Arouna Sissoko)

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Mali coup leaders vow to hold elections

by Baba Ahmed Associated Press, and Carley Petesch Associated PressAugust 19, 2020

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Mali coup leader retakes government control

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