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Mali: Under Pressure, Coup Leaders Reinstate Constitution

Capt. Amadou Haya Sanogo, who led other low ranking military officers that ousted Mali's democratically elected President Amadou Toumani Toure last month and scrapped the nation's constitution made a public reversal yesterday, declaring amid enormous international pressure that he was reinstating the 1992 constitution and planning to hold elections.

Sanogo promised to organise a national convention to reach an agreement on a transitional government which would arrange free and fair elections. He did not say when the convention or elections would take place.

In his declaration, Sanogo said: "We take a solemn promise to re-establish from this day on the constitution of the Republic of Mali of February 25, 1992, as well as the institutions of the republic."

"Taking into account the multidimensional crisis that our country is facing," he added, "we have decided that ... we will engage in consultations with all the actors of society in the context of a national convention in order to put in place a transitional body with the aim of organising calm, free, transparent and democratic elections in which we will not participate."

When he was asked by reporters, if he considered himself the president, the coup leader quickly left the scene of his press briefing.

His declaration was blighted by the penetration of Tuareg rebels who seized control of the ancient Northern city of Timbuktu, a move that deepened the crisis in the West African nation.

According to the Associated Press (AP), Tuareg rebels took advantage of the chaos surrounding last week's coup in the faraway capital to take the town of Kidal, located 1,300 kilometres from Bamako on Friday. They seized the biggest Northern city of Gao, located around 1,200 kilometres away on Saturday - cities that never fell in previous rebellions.

A resident in Timbuktu said that the rebels entered the town after a heavy fire fight, and were going from house to house asking people to remain calm.

Mali, once a model democracy, was plunged into crisis on March 21 when a mutiny erupted at the Kati military camp located around 10 kilometres from the presidential palace.

The 30-something Sanogo was one of the few officers who didn't flee the camp when the rank-and-file soldiers began rioting, and he quickly became their leader as they broke into the camp's armoury, grabbed automatic weapons and headed for the seat of government.

His coup reversed 21 years of democracy, and sent Toure into hiding.

Toure was due to step down after the presidential election, which was scheduled to take place at the end of this month.

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  • ras sideeq
    Apr 2 2012, 11:15

    IT IS IMPERATIVE THAT "PEACE" THE BIG WORD THAT SHOULD RESONATE THR-OUT ALL AFRICA MUST BE ACCOMPANIED BY CONFLICT RESOLUTION.THE ECOAWS STATES MUST NOT BE WESTERN MINDED AND LIKE USA GO AFTER THE COUP LEADERS. MALI WAS FAILING THERE WAS NO REAL DEMOCARTIC INSTITUTIONS IN MALI. WHEN WE TALK ABOUT DEMOCRACY WE MEAN THAT THE ENTIRE NATION IS SPIRITUALY COALESCED. AFRICA HAS TO RETURN TO ITS ROOTS WEMUST ABANDON WESTERN INFLUINCE AND ATTRACT THESTRONGQUALITIES THAT MADE AFRICA GREAT INTHE FIRST PLACE. THE METHODOLOGY OF THE WEST IS NOT CONSCIOUS NOR IS IT BEFICIAL TO AFRICAN EMPOWERMENT. WHEN IS READ THE HOLY BIBLE THE WESTERN INFLUINCE AND FRAUDLENT IDEOL;OGIES PERMEATE WHAT IS THE HOLY SCRIPTURES. WEST AFRICA MORE THAN ANY OTHER PEOPLE KNOWS FOR A FACT THAT THE PEOPLE OF WEST FRICA WERE HIGLY CIVILISED WITH THE UNIVERSITY OF TIMBUKTU KNOWLEDGE WAS SPREAD FAR AND WIDE. MANY EMBRACED ISALM AS MENTAL AND UPLIFTING PSIRUTTAL EMLIGHTENMENT WHERE WE ALSO COEXISTED WITH THOSE WHO MAY NOT HAVE SEEN THE LIGHT BUT THEY FOLLOWED TO PRINCIPLES OF NOBILITY RIGHTEOUSNESS HONOUR AND COEXISTENCE WITH LOVE AND MATURITY. TO ATTAIN THESE HEIGHTS OF THOUGHST WE DEVELOPED THESE HIGH DEVELOPMENTAL IDEOLOGIES OVER SUBSTANT THOUSANDS OF YEARS. THE CONCEPT OF PRISONS WERE ALIEN TO MOST OF AFRICA. AS I STATE TO YOU AGAIN IN EVERY ORGANISED RELIGION ON THIS PLANET ITS ROOTS ARE BRED IN AFRICAN CONCEPTS WHEN YOU ERAD GENISIS THE COVENAT WITH CIRCUMSISION IS PART AND PARCEL FO THE MAJOURITY FO EVERY SINGLE AFRICAN MEMBER STATE ON THE CONTINENT. THESE IDEAS WERE ABOLISHED AND CRITICISED BY THE WEST YET THERE IT IS BROAD AND IN PRINT OF THE VALUES OF CIRCUMSISION. AGAIN TEH VALUE OF MONEY WAS NOT PRESENT IN AFRICA AS THE IDSEOLOGY OF PAYING MONEY FOR A PERSON IS NOT SOMETHING AFRICANS ENGAGED WITH BUT THAT IS MENTIONED IN GENISIS. WE MUST DIRECTLY DISROBE FROM THE GARMENTS OF INSECURITY THAT HAS BEEN PROVIDED FOR US BY A PEOPLE WHO ARE NOT MATURED SPIRTUALY AD ARE NOT RIGHTEOUSS IN ANY WAY. WHEN WE SELECT OUR POWER OF THOGUHT AND WE MEDITATE ON WHO WE ARE AS A PEOPLE AND WE SEARC FOR THE SPRITUALITY OF ORU ANCIENTS AS THEY WERE WITH US IN OUR PAST DVELOPMENTS AS THEY WEE THOSE WHO TAUGHT US THE PRINCIPLES OF MATHEMATCIS SCIENCE AND ASTROCNMY WE MUST GOVERN THESE REALITIES ONCE AGAIN AND DEFINE WHAT IT IS THAT WQE NEED TO REBUILD A SOCIAL CONSCIOUS MOVEMENT WITHIN AFRICA THAT WILL RELEASE EVERYONE FROM MENTAL SLAVERY MENTAL INEEFEICIENCY WE MUST DESIGN A STRATEGY THAT WILL EMPOWER EAC AND EVERY AFRICAN WHERE NO MAN OR WOMAN IS LEFT DEWFENSELES MENTALY OR ECONMICALY. WE MUST REVOGNISE AS I SAID THAT ALL THE PRINCIPLES OF EVERY RELIGION ON THIS PALNET IS AN AFRICAN ORIGIN THAT HAS BEEN TAKEN AND REDESIGNED TO FIT STATUS OR TO EMPOWER. THE STATUTES THAT DEMANDS THAT WE LOVE AND SERVE GOD IS UNIVERSAL. THIS IS WHY WE SEE THE DIFFERNT SPECS TO HOW WE SERVE WHAT HAS HAPPEND ON THE CONTINENT AFRICA HAS BEEN THE BREADBASKET FO WORLD ENLIGHTENMENT SINC ETHE CRACK OF DAWN. WHETEHR WE WERE HERE 6 MILLION YEARS OR 6 BILLION YERAS IT DOES NOT MATTER WHAT WE DO KNOW IS THAT FOR MANY A MILLINIUM THE BLACK MAN WAS SOLE MAINTAINER OF THE PLANET. AS THE BIBLE TRIES TO GUIDE OUR THINKING IT CLEARLY STATES THAT WE ALL SPOKE WITH ONE LANGUAGE THIS SIGNIFIES THAT W ONE COLOUR IT DOES NOT HAVE TO STATE THAT BUT OUR INTELLECT CAN GUIDE US ALONG PRACTICAL AND LOGICAL "THE ALMIGHTY". THE BIOLOGY OF MAN THEN BEGAN TO CHANEG THAT IS WHEN WQE SAW THE MANY EXODUSES OF MAN FROM AFRICA AT DIFFERNT PERIODS. WHAT I WOULD LIKE TO ADD TO THIS SCOPE IS THAT THE PYRAMIDS AND THEIR BUILDS CAN NOT BE SUCCESSFULLY RATIONALISED TO BE THE WORKS DONE FIVE THOUSAND YEARS AGO AS WE KNOW ROCKS CANNNOT BE DETERMINED WHAT IS POSSIBLE TO KNOW IS THAT ROME CAM E INTO EXISTENCE WHERE TIME WAS FOREVER IMORATLISED AS WE KNOW TODAY . THE DIFFERENCE WITH AFRICA IS AFRICA IS SO ANCIENT THATWE STILL HAVE NOT BEGAN TO FULLY APPRECIATE THE FULL STORY F AFRICA BECAUSE OF THE WESTERN DETERMINATION TO DENY AFRICAS CONTRIBUTION AND LONG DIVINE HISTORY A PLATFORM ON WORLD STAGE. WHAT SHOULD BE AMAZING IS THE FACT THAT WE NOW SEE WHITE SKINNED PEOPLE ONT EH PYRAMID DRAWINGS FROM ALONGER TIME WHEN WE KNOW THAT EVEN IN THEIR GLORY THEY HAVE NEVER WALKED AROUND AFRIC WITHOUT CLOTHES AS THE BLACK MAN HAS. WE KNOW SCIENTIFICALY THAT THIS WOULD BE AN IMPOSSIBLE ASK THEY WOUDL LITERALLY BRUN AND TURN ABOSLOUTELY RED WITH SKIN PEEELING AND THE REST SO WHEN WE SEE THESE IMAGINATIVE POSES OF WHITE PEOPLE IN BARE SKIN WE KNOW THESE ARE RACIST PAINTINGS ENVOKING THEMSELVES INTO THE ANCIENT AFRICAN BEGININGS. WE MUST ALSO LOOK AT ETHIOPIA OF ANCIENT ORIGINS WHERE ALL THE KINGS WERE ALLIED TO ETHIOPIA EVEN WHEN WE READ AMOS 9.THE SCRIPTURES CLEARLY PUTS ISRAELITES AND THE ETHIOPIANS AS ONE. WE KNOW FROM HISTORY THAT THE SOUTH WAS IMORTALISED BY EGYPTIANS AND EVEN THE SABIANS IN THE ARABIAN DESERST LOOKED AND BURIED AND PRAYED SOUTH AS DIDI ALL EGYPTIANS . FURTHER TO ADD TO ORU ENDURING HISTORY IS THE FACT THAT RIFT VALLEY IS SOUTH THIS WE KNOW TO BE THE BIRTH PLACE OF MAN WE MUST EVEN RECOGNISE THAT THE GRETAEST RIVER ON THE PLANET THE NILE RIVER RUNS FROM SOUTH TO NORTHAND EMPTIES IN THE MEDITERANEAN. HISTORY MUST NOT ALLUDE USWE MSUT NOT PUT ON EMPHASIS ONW AHT THE PERVERTERS OF TRUTH HAS BEA TO DO THEY HAVE SOUGHT TO UNDERMINE AND DISCOURAGE US FROM REINVENTING OURSELVES IN OUR PERFECT IMAGE. THEY HAVE CONFUSED LIED AND DESTROYED OUR CONFIDENCE WELL WE MUST RECLAIM WHAT IS OUR TURTH WE MUST NOT ALLOW OURSELVES TO BECOME DGRADED TO THEIR LEVEL OF INSINCERITY SELFISHNESS CORRUPTIBILITY IRREVERNCE UNRIGHTEOUSNESS DISOBEDIENCE UNTRUTH. THE OBJECT OF HUMANITY WAS EVIDENT IN AFRICA WHEN THEY CAM EHERE THEY CAN LIES AND FORGE AS MUCH AS THEY WANT THE TRUTH WILL STILL BETOLD. THEYTOK ALOT OF ORU SCINCE AND MISUSED IT TO CRAETE SUCH THINSG AS THIS DESTRUCTIVE ATOMIC AND NUCLEAR MSIPHILOSOPHY. THEY HAVE ATTRIBUTED GREECE AND HIPPOCRATIS AS THE FATHER OF MEDICINE THE HIPOCRATIC OATH NAMED AFTER HIM. WHEN THEY HAVE CLEAR EIVDENCE THESE PEOPLE LEARNED FROM THE EGYPTIANS THEY THESE WHITES EVEN CALLED THE EHYPTIANS BLACK AS WELL AS THE ETHIOPIANS WHERE TH ETHIOPINAS WERE THE RULERS OF ALL AFRICA THRUOUT MOST OF THE ILLUSTRIOUS AGES IN AFRICA AS ETHIOPIA STRETCHED HER HANDS OUT TO THE WORLD AND BROUGHT GLORIOUS KNOWLEDGE. TODAY WE MUST ALLY ORUSLVES AS ONE PEOPLE INDIVISBLE WITH ONE UNITY ONE AIM ONE PROSPERITY WE MUST EMPOWER ALL OUR PEOPLE WE MUST ABSTAIN FROM PETTYNRELIGOUS RIVALRIES. DURING A CERTAIN PERIOD IN TIEM ES PECIALLY DURING THE PAST FIVE HUNDRED YEARS WE HAVE SEEN THE ESTABLSIHMENT OF THE SALVE TRADE BOURNE OUT OF WHITE ARABIC ISLAM . THE WHITE ARABS STARTED TO DOMINATE THE TRUTH AND THEY PRINTED THE QUARAANS AND THENCE EMBRACED SLAVERY ,WHITE EUROPEANS THEN ALLIED THEMSELVES WITH THESE WHITE ARABS AFTER SUCCESSFULLY REMOVING ALL BLACK PEOPLE FORM SPAIN AND THOSE WHO PRACTISED ISLAM THEY CALLED THIS THE SPANISH INQUISITION. WE MUST ALSO NOTE THT THE BROWN AND MIXED RACE ARBS ALLIED THEMSELVES WITH WHITES TO DOMINATE BLACKS. TODAY THEY MUST ACKNOWLEDGE THE TRUTH AND THEY MUST ALSO RECGNISE THAT THEY ARE ALSO FROM THE PURE BRED AFRICAN BLACK MAN. TODAY WE MSUT STOP FIGHTING FOR POWR WHEN THE POWER OF OUR SELVES IS MNUCH BIGGER THAN WHAT IT IS YOU DESIRE. AFRICAN ISALM IS MUCH MORE MENTAL EMPOWERMENT AND A CALL FOR RIGHTEOUSNESS THE DIVERSENESS OF ISALM IS NOT IMPORTANT IN THOSE WHO ARE TREU BELIVERS THAT THERE IS AN ETRNAL CREATOR WHOM IS MASTER AND CREATOR OF AL ALL HUMANITY AND ALL THE IDENTIFIBALE SPACES IN TIME WE ESS. THERE IS NONE GREATER OR WIZER OR MORE POWERFUL THAN HE. THE AFRICAN HA IDENTIFIED THIS THOUGHT MILLIOS F YEARS AGO HENCE WHEN THE WHITES AND ARABS OF WHITE DESCENT CAME INTO THE OTHER REGIONS OF AFRICA WEST SOUTH NORTH THEY FOUND THAT STABILITY AND RIGHETOUSENESS EXISTED WITHOUT THE NEED FOR PRISONS OR WAS THERE WARS OR INSECURITY. WE HAD A STRONG SYSTEM THAT WAS SO HIGH THAT WE SIGNIFICANTLY DID NOT NEED TO DESTROY OUR ENEMIES WE LOVED THEM AND TAUGHT THEM. THESE WERE OUR IDEOLOGIES. WE DID NOT HAVE RAPES NOR DID WE HAVE LUST CRIME WAS ABOSLOUTELY NEGLIBLE HOW DO YOU ASCRIBE TO THIS STAEMNET? AFRICA HAD DOCTORS WE ALSO HAD BUILDERS AND THERE WERE WALL CITIES IN EVERY PART OF AFRICA SOME STILL EXIST TODAY AND SOME WERE DESTROYED OR ASIMILATED INTO WHATEVER CIVILIZATIONS THAT WERE CREATED. WE MUST ALSO MAKE IT CLEAR THAT THE BERBERS AND BEDOINS WHO WERE ESENTIALLY WHITE THE BEDOUINS THEY DID NOT COME FROM WAY OVER THE ARABIAN DESRT TO CIVILISE EUORPE THIS WA DONE Y MOORS WHO WERE INTIALLY CALLED TH BLACKAMOORS. THE GREAT PALACES IN PERSIA IRAQ WERE BUILT THE ORIGINAL BLACK PEOPLE WHO WERE EVENTUALLY CONQUORED AND RULED OVER ASSIMILATED INTO THESE LIGHTER PEPLE THAT CAME OUT OF ASIA AND THEN LATER THE CAUCAUSES THEN WESTERN EUROPE. EVERY NATION HAS HAD ATIME AT POWER HOWEVER THE AFRICAN CONTINENT WAS WHERE IT BEGAN . WHEN THE PEOPLE OF AFRICA REGIAN THEIR CONSCIOUSNES THEN AFRICA WILL STAND PROUD UNITED AND THE GLORY THAT WAS ONCE AFRICA WILL RETURN. THOUGH WE SEE THAT THEY HAVE DVIDED AFRICA AND WE HAVE THIS SO CALLED MIDDLE EAST WE MUST RECOGNISE THAT TODAY THE BLOOD OF AFRICA STILL REMAINS STRONG IN THESE PLACES AND THE TRUTH WHICH IS STILL HIDDEN BUT IS STILL ALLOWED TO BE MAGNIFIED WILL AGAIN BECOME SYNONIMOUS WITH "THE INDIVISIBLE ONE GREAT GOD" WHO IS OUR ETERNAL RULER" THIS WILL BECOME ONCE AGAIN ONE GREAT CONTINENT" MY BROTHERS IN MALI AND ECOWAS THE TAUREGS ARE OUR CHILDREN THEY ARE OUR BROTHERS WE MSUT UNITE AND SLIDIFY THE GRETANESS OF AFRICA WE MSUT TEACH ALL THE CHILDREN WHAT WE KNOW. ISALM IS AN AFRICAN ISEA SO IS JUDAISM AND EVEN CHRISTIANITY WHICH THE DICPLES WER BLACK AS WELLA S THE APOSTLES . CHRISTIANITY WAS WRITTEN AS A CONCEPT FIVE HUNDRED YEARS AFTER THE DEATH OF CHRIST`. JESUS AT NO TIME REFERD TO HIMSELF AS GOD. THIS IS BLASPHEME WE MUST KNOW THAT. WE CAN NOT IDENTIFY ANYTHING ON THIS PALNET AND REALTE IT OT THE "ALMIGHTY GOD" WHAT IS THE DIFFERNCE BETWEEN JESUS AND THE COW ONE IS LIVINGH AND THE OTHER WAS MADE THEY ARE ALL BETRAYALS OF WHAT IT IS THT WE KNOW. YOUR MINDS HAVE THE TRUTH NHIDDEN YOUR ANCESTTORS ARE THE LONGEST ON THE PLANET THE SPIRTUALITY THAT IS AFRICA STILL REMAINS. AFRICANS LIKE TO SING ALOUD NOISE UNTO THAT ALMIGHTY WE LOVE T SING ADN DANCE AND GIVE THE "ALMIGHTY GOD " PRAISES DAVID WAS PLAYER OF INSTRUMENTS. HELOVED TO SING AND DANCE AND GIVE GOD THE GLORY. LET US MAGNIFY GOD FOR WHOM HE IS WAY ABOVE OUR SPACE AN INTELLECT; "PEACE AND BLESSINSG BE UPON ALL AFRICA. ALL AFRICA TODAY IS SYNNONIMOUS AS ONE AFRICA EVERYTHING THAT HAPPENS IN ONE PART OF AFRICA REVERBERATES TO THE OTHER PARTS OF AFRICA . FOR US TO CONSIDER THAT WE NO LONGER HAVE COMMON INTERST WITH ALL OUR BROTHERS IS A RADICAL MISTAKE . EGYPT TUNISIA ALGERIA MALI MAURITANIA CONGO ETHIOPIA MORROCO WEST SHARA WE ARE ALL UNDER THE AFRICAN SUN GAZZA WE MUST NOT FOREGT THOSE WHO ARE SUFFERING FROM OPPRSEEION HATRED ANDAND THE REPUGANTCY OF APARTHIED AND GENOCIDE. AFRICA MUST DIDSIT FROM ANY OF THESE UNGODLY PRACTICES WE MUST CONTAIN OUR INNER EMOTIONS AND SEEK TO BE PERFECT MANWE MUST TRANSLATE THIS IN OUR PRACTICES OF LOVE FOR OUR RIGHTEOUSS WOMEN WE MUST SHOW THEMLOVE AND ELVATE THEM TO RAISE ORU CHILDREN SO THEY ALSO CAN ECOME PERFECT WE MUST NO LONGER ENTERTAIN THE WHITES BY PLAYING TO THEIR STEREOTYPING AND PROFILING WE ARE NOT LIKE THEM AND WE MSUT NTO SURRENDER TO BE LIKE THEM WE AREMNOT MURDERERS NOR ARE WE RAPIST CHILD MOLESTERS OR KIDNAPPERS WE ARE FROM THE PERFECT WHOM HAVE BEEN ALWAYS SUBMISSIVE TO "ONE "ALMIGHTY GOD" WE SHOULD FALL ON OUR FACES AND WORSHIP AS "THERE IS NONE GREATER" THAN HE" WHETHER MUSLIM CHRISTIAN ISRAELITE WE MUST SEEK HIS FACE AND PRAISE HIM "PEACE BE UPON MALI AND ALL AFRICA"