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Amnesty International has urged Mali’s new leadership to ensure that Thursday’s attack injuring peaceful protesters who are opposed to the junta is fully investigated. The protesters were calling for the reinstatement of the country’s constitution when they were attacked by a group of people in plainclothes during a rally inside the labor exchange in Mali’s capital Bamako. It was the ...

The Senate in Abuja on Tuesday asked the military junta in Mali to hand over power to President Amadou Toure, just as it congratulated President-elect Macky Sall of Senegal on his victory. The Senate also called on ECOWAS, AU, the UN and other international bodies to impose sanctions on Mali should the junta fail to hand over power immediately. Similarly, ...