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BREAKING: Former President Is Dead
Former president is dead.
A Former President of Mali, Amadou Toumani Toure is dead.
He died at age 72 in Turkey.
Toure who led the Sahel nation for a ten years before being ousted in a coup, died in Turkey, a family member and a doctor said on Tuesday.
Confirming the incident, Toure’s nephew, Oumar Toure Amadou said: “Toumani Toure died during the night of Monday to Tuesday in Turkey,” where he had been taken for health treatment”, he told AFP.
A hospital doctor in Bamako said the former leader had recently undergone heart surgery.
Although “everything seemed to be going well”, the doctor said he was later transferred to Turkey for medical reasons.
Toure, a former soldier, first took charge of the country for a year in 1991, helping to overthrow the previous regime and install democracy.
He won presidential elections in 2002 and 2007 but was overthrown in 2012 by mutinous soldiers who accused him of failing to support their battle against both Tuareg rebels and jihadist insurgents.
Mali has suffered from severe instability and repeated coups, the recent happened earlier this year.
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