Ousted president of Mali flees to Senegal - World

The former president of Mali, ousted in a military coup at the end of March, has arrived in Dakar, officials said Friday, in flight from a country still in the grip of the soldiers who forced him out. The former president, Amadou Toumani Toure, had been in hiding in a suburban district of Mali’s capital, Bamako, for most of the period after the coup.