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A court in Mali has threwn out a case against a newspaper editor who was arrested after publishing an article criticising the leader of last year's military coup.
A Malian newspaper editor detained for nearly a month after publishing an open letter from disgruntled soldiers has been freed after the case was declared "null and void".
The leader of a March coup that ousted Mali's government, exacerbating a crisis in which Islamist rebels went on to seize over half the country, has been sworn in as head of a military reform committee.
Russia has revealed that it is supplying guns to Mali's government, as French troops defused a massive bomb in the north of the country, the latest bid by Islamist rebels to strike back.
Heavy gunfire has erupted in the west of Mali's capital Bamako, as government forces exchange fire with mutinous paratroopers, military sources and witnesses say.
Many doubt the Mali army is up to the challenge of fighting the Islamist extremists.
Mali's interim PM has formed a new government, with some ministers being replaced with ties to a coup leader Amadou Sanogo.
The United States has described the new prime minister of Mali as a man respected by US officials and urged him to move swiftly to form a new government to lead the troubled country.
Mali's new prime minister says his priorities are to regain control of the north from Islamists and organise a general election in the troubled west African nation.
Amnesty International says soldiers loyal to Mali's ousted government were tortured and suffered other rights abuses at the hands of the junta behind the March coup.
Mali’s interim president Dioncounda Traore has sidelined his controversial prime minister Cheick Modibo Diarra by announcing the creation of new bodies tasked with ending the crisis.
Forces loyal to Mali's coup are responsible for the disappearance of at least 20 people now presumed dead and for torture that includes sexual abuse, a rights group says.
Mali's military has arrested the colonel behind an attempted counter coup in April.
The body representing western Africa nations has stripped the leader of Mali's recent coup of his recently acquired status as a former head of state.
The prime minister of Mali's transition government has arrived in Abidjan for talks with current African Union head Alassane Ouattara on the Malian crisis.
