Ex-Mali President Amadou Passes On In Exile
By Our Reporter
It is grief and sadness in Mali following the unfortunate demise of their former president Amadou Toumani Toure, who passed away on Monday night at a hospital in Turkey, where he was living in exile.
Toure, who led the Sahel nation for a decade before being ousted in a coup, died at age 72, a family member and a doctor said on Tuesday, although they didn’t give details.
"Amadou Toumani Toure died during the night of Monday to Tuesday in Turkey," where he had been taken for health reasons, his nephew Oumar Toure told AFP.
A hospital doctor in Bamako said the former leader had recently undergone heart surgery, although it is not clear whether he died of heart complications.
Although "everything seemed to be going well", the doctor said he was later trans...