(01.05.2012) Hours before the revolt broke out Monday, the junta’s leader, a youthful American-trained captain named Amadou Haya Sanogo confidently declared a leading role in Mali’s future in an interview at his barracks outside Bamako, the capital. (…)
Captain Sanogo’s coup on March 22 caused the immediate collapse of the Malian Army’s resistance to nomadic rebel and Islamist forces sweeping across the vast northern half of the country.