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BAMAKO, Mali (AP) — Mali's embattled coup leader said late Friday the National Assembly president will become the next head of state, an announcement made only hours after separatist Tuareg rebels declared their independence and as the nation grappled with harsh financial sanctions from its neighbors.

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BAMAKO, Mali (AP) — Mali's Tuareg rebels, who have seized control of the country's distant north in the chaotic aftermath of a military coup in the capital, declared independence Friday of their Azawad nation.

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France has advised its nationals "whose presence is not essential" to leave Mali as Tuareg rebels sweep across the north of the country in the wake of a military coup.

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Mali's Tuareg rebels, who have taken much of the country's entire north during an unprecented offensive, have been spotted near the central town of Mopti, a French minister said Tuesday.

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West African leaders slapped crippling sanctions on Mali's new junta ahead of emergency UN talks Tuesday on the troubled nation, half of which is now held by Tuareg rebels and Islamist fighters.

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West African leaders slapped crippling sanctions on Mali's junta Monday on the eve of UN talks about the country, where half the territory has fallen to rebels and Islamist fighters.

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BAMAKO, Mali (AP) — Just 12 days after they stormed the presidential palace, the young officers that seized control of Mali in a coup were slapped Monday with harsh financial sanctions that could cause the country to run out of gasoline.

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BAMAKO, Mali (AP) — After seizing the strategic northern towns of Kidal and Gao, Tuareg rebels on Sunday began besieging the ancient city of Timbuktu, taking their fight for a homeland for the nomadic Tuareg people to the last major government holdout in northern Mali.

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Mali junta head Captain Amadou Sanogo on Saturday ordered the army "not to prolong the fighting" in Gao, a move that leaves the main northern town open to the rampant Toureg rebels.

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BAMAKO, Mali (AP) — Rebels on Saturday attacked Mali's strategic northern city of Gao, a day after they took the provincial capital of Kidal, witnesses and an official said. The move deepens the crisis in the landlocked nation at the feet of the Sahara after a coup earlier this month by Malian soldiers angry at the government's handling of the rebellion.

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Captain Amadou Haya Sanogo, once a US-trained English instructor to his fellow Malian officers, has emerged as the leader of a military junta which ousted a democratic regime.

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BAMAKO, Mali (AP) — Mali's foreign minister and 13 others being detained by the junta that took over Mali started a hunger strike Sunday, the minister's brother said.

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Mali was gripped by uncertainty on Sunday after a coup by mutinous soldiers who ousted the president, leaving a power vacuum exploited by separatist Tuareg rebels waging an offensive in the north.

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Bamako's main market was a shadow of its normal bustling self, shops were shuttered and people preferred to stay home days after Malian President Amadou Toumani Toure was ousted in a coup.

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Tuareg rebels closed in on a key city in northern Mali Sunday, taking advantage of a power vacuum in Bamako where putschists insisted they were in firm control after ousting the government.

20120324
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BAMAKO, Mali (AP) — Television screens throughout this landlocked country momentarily went black Friday, as residents near the building housing the state broadcaster saw troops erecting barricades, fearing a possible countercoup a day after a military takeover.

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At the barracks where Mali's junta has set up camp, mutinous soldiers expressed their pride Friday at having snatched the reins of power from a leadership they perceive as incompetent.

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The African Union on Friday suspended Mali following a military coup and said it would send a joint team with the West African bloc ECOWAS to urge a return to constitutional order.

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BAMAKO, Mali (AP) — Tuareg rebels on Friday threatened three strategic northern Mali towns, including the famed ancient city of Timbuktu, as leaders of the two-month-old rebellion took advantage of a power vacuum caused when government soldiers stormed the presidential palace and ousted the democratically elected president.