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May 1st, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
An employee of the TV and radio station, which had been held by rebel soldiers
since the coup, told AFP that “there were deaths” in the gunfight,
without giving precise casualty figures.
Forces loyal to the junta were also attacked in Kati, although it was not
clear by whom. “I am coming under fire,” Samba Coulibaly, a member
of the former junta, told AFP.
Another military source also said there had been shots fired and that
civilians were leaving the town.
“Obviously, there is a coup against Sanogo” attempted by supporters
of ousted President Toure, said a government source in a neighbouring
country.
When the renegade soldiers staged their coup on March 22, shortly before
scheduled elections, their power grab shattered the country’s image as a
democratic success story in the region.
Under diplomatic pressure from Mali’s partners and military pressure from the
advancing rebellion in the north of the country, the junta agreed to hand
power over to Dioncounda Traoré, the former parliament speaker.
Traoré was sworn in as interim president on April 12, but the situation in the
country has remained volatile.
In the north, an area the size of France is now in the hands of Tuareg
separatist rebels, many of them battle-hardened and well-armed after serving
as mercenaries in the Libyan conflict, and Islamist militias.
The regional grouping ECOWAS, the Economic Community of West African States,
has mediated the handover to a civilian government and pressured the junta
to return to the barracks, with mixed success.
The captain who led the coup, Sanogo, on Saturday rejected a decision by West
African states to send troops to oversee the transition period, and their
demand to have elections within 12 months.
A meeting that had been planned for Tuesday between an ECOWAS mediator,
Burkina Faso President Blaise Compaore, and a delegation of the former junta
was cancelled, a source close to the mediators said.
The delegation of rebels would not come because an aircraft in which they had
been due to travel “could not land in Bamako,” as gunfire was
exchanged in the city late Monday, the source told AFP.
Source: agencies
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