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Touré was head of President Moussa Traoré's personal guard (and parachute regiment) when a popular revolution overthrew the regime in March 1991; Colonel Touré then arrested the President and led the revolution onward.
Nov 13, 2020 · In March 1991, as nascent democratic movements proliferated across Africa, Colonel Touré intervened following weeks of street protests in Bamako against the harsh and unpopular regime of ...
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Amadou Toumani Toure (ATT), 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. In March 2012 he was deposed in a military coup.
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Mr. Touré became Mali’s interim head of state in Bamako, the capital, a position he held from 1991 to 1992. Foiling a coup attempt, he steered the country to its first democratic presidential...
Mar 22, 2012 · Toure, a former army officer, seized power in a coup that toppled long-time military ruler Moussa Traore, who had himself seized power in a 1968 coup, after Traore ordered the shootings of...
Mar 23, 2012 · The current president, Amadou Toumani Toure, was a former paratrooper who seized power in a 1991 coup. But he yielded authority to elected politicians after a little more than a year. After...
Nov 10, 2020 · As an army colonel and head of the presidential guard, Toure spearheaded the ouster of military strongman Moussa Traore in 1991 amid a popular revolt triggered by a violent crackdown on...
