home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- <text id=91TT0728>
- <title>
- Apr. 08, 1991: World Notes:Mali
- </title>
- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
- Apr. 08, 1991 The Simple Life
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- WORLD, Page 44
- World Notes
- MALI
- The Winds of Democracy
- </hdr><body>
- <p> The elusive promise of African democracy gained new strength
- in Mali last week as President Moussa Traore was overthrown by his
- disenchanted army, after 22 years of military dictatorship. The
- coup was triggered by three days of pro-democracy rioting in the
- capital of Bamako, during which at least 150 civilians were
- killed and more than 1,000 wounded in clashes with Mali's
- security forces.
- </p>
- <p> Promising to replace Traore's "bloodthirsty and corrupt
- regime" with multiparty democracy, the coup leaders quickly
- formed a 17-man National Reconciliation Council headed by Lieut.
- Colonel Amadou Toumani Toure, 43, commander of the parachute
- forces. The council has announced plans to form a 25-member
- interim administration, which will hold mul tiparty elections
- by 1992. But democracy still faces a stiff challenge in this
- drought-prone nation of 8 million, one of the world's poorest
- countries. While the coup brought the chance of greater freedom,
- it also continued the pattern of violent overthrows plaguing the
- continent.
- </p>
-
- </body></article>
- </text>
-
-