DTN News - MALI DEFENSE NEWS: Military Junta Declares Coup In Mali, Raising Fears And Prompting Uncertainty In The Region
(NSI News Source Info) TORONTO, Canada - March 23, 2012: Soldiers secure the area around the presidential palace after a military coup in Bamako, Mali Friday March 23, 2012.
The whereabouts of Mali's president Amadou Toumani Toure is unknown Friday, a day after mutinous soldiers declared a coup, raising fears and prompting uncertainty in a West African nation that had been one of the region's few established democracies. (Photo - AP)
