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FILE - In this Thursday, Jan. 15, 2009 file photo, President of Mali Amadou Toumani Toure gestures after a meeting with German Chancellor Angela Merkel at the chancellory in Berlin, Germany. Mali's former president Amadou Toumani Toure, who served as Mali's president from 2002 until March 2012 when he was deposed by a military coup, has died at the age of 72, according to Senegal's President Macky Sall on Tuesday, Nov. 10, 2020. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn, File)

Mali’s former president Amadou Toumani Toure dies at 72

By BABA AHMED - Associated Press

Civilians walk past tires set afire in support of mutinying soldiers in Bamako, Mali, on Wednesday, March 21, 2012. (AP Photo/Harouna Traore)

Soldiers loot Mali presidential palace after ousting leader

By Baba Ahmed and Martin Vogl - Associated Press

Soldiers gather in Bamako, Mali, on Thursday at an entrance to the compound containing government ministries after taking power in a coup, Drunken soldiers looted Mali's presidential palace hours after they declared a coup on Thursday, suspending the constitution and dissolving the institutions of one of the few established democracies in this troubled corner of Africa. (Associated Press)

Mali soldiers grab power in coup; U.S. condemns ouster of president

By Baba Ahmed and Martin Vogl - Associated Press