adminbeaten — brushed off the statement by a pro-putsch coalition as “ridiculous”.
The pro-coup Committee of Malian Patriotic Organisations (COPAM) said it had decided Tuesday at a meeting “to institute Captain Amadou Sanogo as president of the transition” in the West African nation.
On Sunday the junta had signed an accord mediated by the Economic Community of West African States (Ecowas) that 70-year-old Traore would lead the 12-month transition back to democratic rule.
But thousands of people who supported the March ouster of president Amadou Toumani Toure then took to the streets to protest the appointment of a former member of his government.
Scores of protesters besieged Traore’s offices and physically attacked him on Monday, prompting widespread condemnation and calls for calm in what was considered one of the region’s stable democracies before the crisis. — AFP.
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