Former Mali Coup Leader Detained for Questioning

Soldiers in Mali have detained Amadou Sanogo, the army officer who led last year's coup and briefly served as the country's de facto leader. Sanogo's communications director, Mohamed Coulibaly, said that security forces took Sanogo from his home in the capital Wednesday and brought him before a judge whose summons the former coup leader had repeatedly ignored. Mali's Minister of Justice Muhammad Ali Bathily said that Sanogo was not indicted, but that security agents...

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