Malian President, Ibrahim Keita, on Wednesday, said he was resigning to avoid “bloodshed”, hours after his arrest by troops in a sudden coup that followed a months-long political crisis in the West African nation. The government has also been struggling to contain an Islamist insurgency that first emerged in 2012 and has claimed thousands of lives Taking advantage of the crisis in the country, rebel soldiers moved against the government, detained the president and Prime Minister Boubou Cisse on Tuesday afternoon and drove the pair to a military base…
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