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Amadou Toumani Touré (4 November 1948 – 9 November 2020) was a Malian politician. He supervised Mali's first multiparty elections as chairman of the transitional government (1991–1992), and later became the second democratically elected President of Mali (2002–2012).
May 2, 2024 · Amadou Toumani Touré (born November 4, 1948, Mopti, French Sudan [now in Mali]—died November 10, 2020, Istanbul, Turkey) was a Malian politician and military leader who twice led his country. He served as interim president (1991–92) after a coup and was elected president in 2002.
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Nov 10, 2020 · Amadou Toumani Touré, a former president of Mali who helped shape the country’s political landscape over two decades before being toppled in a military coup in 2012, died on Monday in...
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Nov 13, 2020 · Amadou Toumani Touré, who died in an Istanbul hospital on November 10th at age 72, is being warmly remembered in Mali as one of the country’s greatest leaders.
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Nov 10, 2020 · Mali’s former President Amadou Toumani Toure, who led the Sahel nation for a decade before being removed in a coup, has died in Turkey aged 72, a family member and a doctor said.
Mar 22, 2012 · Malian President Amadou Toumani Toure, who mutinying soldiers say has been deposed in an apparent coup, first came to power in the arid, land-locked West African country in 1991.
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Nov 20, 2020 · Amadou Touré, coup maker, coup victim, military ruler, and eventually civilian chief of state in Mali, died last week in Istanbul at the age of seventy-two. Touré...
