DTN News - AFRICA DEFENSE NEWS: Burkina Faso Colonel-Major Barro Gnibanga Appointed Commander Of The ECOWAS Force In Guinea-Bissau

DTN News - AFRICA DEFENSE NEWS: Burkina Faso Colonel-Major Barro Gnibanga Appointed Commander Of The ECOWAS Force In Guinea-Bissau

(NSI News Source Info) TORONTO, Canada - April 28, 2012: Burkina Faso Colonel-Major Barro Gnibanga, appointed commander of the ECOWAS force in Guinea-Bissau, poses for a photograph at the end of an emergency ECOWAS summit held to discuss violence and unrest in Mali and Guinea Bissau, on April 26, 2012, in Abidjan. 

The ECOWAS leaders announced that a regional military force would be sent to northern Mali and between 500 and 600 troops to Guinea-Bissau to help 'secure' the transition after the outbreak of political and military crises in the two countries. (Photo - Getty)

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DTN News - MALI DEFENSE NEWS: Military Junta Declares Coup In Mali, Raising Fears And Prompting Uncertainty In The Region

DTN News - MALI DEFENSE NEWS: Military Junta Declares Coup In Mali, Raising Fears And Prompting Uncertainty In The Region

(NSI News Source Info) TORONTO, Canada - March 23, 2012: Soldiers secure the area around the presidential palace after a military coup in Bamako, Mali Friday March 23, 2012. 

The whereabouts of Mali's president Amadou Toumani Toure is unknown Friday, a day after mutinous soldiers declared a coup, raising fears and prompting uncertainty in a West African nation that had been one of the region's few established democracies. (Photo - AP)

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DTN News - MALI DEFENSE NEWS: Military Junta Declares Coup In Mali - Soldier Participating In Mutiny

DTN News - MALI DEFENSE NEWS: Military Junta Declares Coup In Mali - Soldier Participating In Mutiny


(NSI News Source Info) TORONTO, Canada - March 22, 2012: A soldier participating in a mutiny stands near civilians and burning tires lit in support of the mutiny, in Bamako, Mali Wednesday March 21, 2012. 


Gunshots could still be heard in the Malian capital late Wednesday, hours after angry troops started a mutiny at a military base near the presidential palace.


 Soldiers stormed the offices of the state broadcaster, yanking both TV and radio off the air. 
(Photo - AP)


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DTN News - MALI DEFENSE NEWS: Military Junta Declares Coup In Mali - Civilians Cheer Mutinous Soldiers

 DTN News - MALI DEFENSE NEWS: Military Junta Declares Coup In Mali - Civilians Cheer Mutinous Soldiers 

(NSI News Source Info) TORONTO, Canada - March 22, 2012: Civilians cheer as mutinous soldiers drive past in Bamako, Mali Wednesday March 21, 2012.


Gunshots could still be heard in the Malian capital late Wednesday, hours after angry troops started a mutiny at a military base near the presidential palace. 


Soldiers stormed the offices of the state broadcaster, yanking both TV and radio off the air.
 (Photo - AP)


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