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Strategies & Market Trends : Africa and its Issues- Why Have We Ignored Africa?

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From: TimF	3/22/2012 9:33:26 PM
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Mali soldiers loot presidential palace after coup Renegade soldiers in Mali have looted the presidential palace in the capital, Bamako, after a coup. The coup leaders went on state TV to announce that they have seized control of the country and closed the borders. A government official told the BBC that President Amadou Toumani Toure is safe and not in the custody of mutineers. There has been widespread international condemnation of the coup, with the African Union describing it as a "significant setback for Mali". The UN Security Council called for the "immediate restoration of constitutional rule and the democratically elected government". The World Bank and African Development Bank announced they were suspending all aid until the crisis is resolved. Kenya's Foreign Minister Moses Wetangula and his delegation are stranded in the country, as Bamako's airport is closed, after attending an AU meeting on peace and security. The West African regional body Ecowas said the mutinous soldiers' behaviour was "reprehensible" and "misguided". The soldiers, calling themselves the Committee for the Re-establishment of Democracy and the Restoration of the State (CNRDR), said they would hand over power to an elected government. "The objective of the CNRDR does not in any way aim to confiscate power, and we solemnly swear to return power to a democratically elected president as soon as national unity and territorial integrity are established," they said in a statement. The soldiers said they had led Wednesday's mutiny because the government had not giving them enough arms to tackle a rebellion by ethnic Tuareg in the north of Mali. They attacked the presidential palace, traded gunfire with soldiers loyal to the government and took over the state radio and TV broadcaster in Bamako and took it off air. After several hours of footage of traditional Malian music and dancing, a group of soldiers appeared on screen early on Thursday morning. The leader of the mutiny was revealed to be Capt Amadou Sanogo, who appeared briefly to announce the imposition of a national curfew, although he did not specifying the time and said the constitution had been suspended... bbc.co.uk

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