Military Oust Mali President, Seize Control

Soldiers Oust Mali President, Seize Control -- Voice of America

Malian soldiers angered over the government's mishandling of the two-month-old Tuareg rebellion in the North say they have overthrown President Amadou Toumani Toure - just weeks before the election that would have marked an end to his mandate. The president's location is unknown. Frustration had long been brewing in the military in what had been one of the region's few stable democracies.

Residents told VOA that sporadic gunfire continued in Bamako Thursday just hours after renegade soldiers - calling themselves the National Committee for the Restoration of Democracy and State - or CNRDR, seized control of the state.

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