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Mali junta wants three-year military rule, agrees to free president

Mali's new strongman, Colonel Assimi Goita, and his junta have proposed a military-led transitional body to rule for three years. [AFP]

The junta that seized power in Mali wants a military-led transitional body to rule for three years and has agreed to release the ousted president, a source in a visiting West African delegation and the rebel soldiers said Sunday.

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