Mali Ex-President Amadou Toure in High Treason Probe

Mali has announced plans to investigate former President Amadou Toumani Toure for high treason.

The office of Prime Minister Oumar Tatam Ly said in a televised statement it had presented the case to Mali’s highest court.

The government accuses Mr Toure of failing in his duty as commander of the armed forces when Islamist militants attacked the country’s north last year.

Mr Toure was ousted in a military coup in April 2012 and fled to Senegal.

The coup plunged Mali into chaos, allowing an alliance of ethnic Tuareg separatists and Islamists to take over the whole northern desert region.

Earlier this year, the al-Qaeda-linked insurgents were ousted from the major towns with the help of France and West African troops.

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