The transitional president of Mali Dioncounda Traore has been admitted to hospital after protesters reportedly burst into his office and beat him.
According to BBC, Traore was unconscious when he arrived at hospital.
AFP reports that hundreds of demonstrators stormed the headquarters of the general secretariat next to the presidential palace because they were angry at his appointment.
The army told BBC reporters that they shot dead three people during mass protests by supporters of the March coup who were angry at a deal for Traore, to remain in office for a year.
The protesters reportedly shouted slogans including "Down with Ecowas" and "Down with Dioncounda".
The violent demonstration came a day after the Economic Community of West African States warned the leader of the junta, Captain Amadou Sanogo to "refrain from making public pronouncements including statements to the media which imply he is still in control, warning that failure to comply with these decisions would result in the reinstatement of targeted sanctions against members of the junta and their associates".

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the problem is yhat foreign leaders are putting a leader of their choice regardless of the peoples´will.
WHAT WE ARES EEING IN MALI IS THE INABILITY OF ECOWAS TO ACT WITH AN AFRICAN AGENDA. WHAT ECOWAS IS PERMEATING IS THEIR ALLIGIANCE TO WESTERN POLIICIES. FIRST AND FOREMOST THE JUNTA SHOULD NOT HAVE BEEN ABLE TO EVEN FIRM UP IN MALI. THE ECOWAS COMMUNITY HAS AN AFRICAN UNION MANDATE THAT STIPULATES THAT NO COUNTTRY SHOULD BE AT ANY TIME BE VIOLENLT OVERTURNED. THE AFRICAN UNION DEMOCRATIC PROCCES IS THE BED ROCK OF THEIR FOREIGN POLICY AND PEACE WITHIN ALL NATIONS. THE IDEOLOGY THAT ANY CHANGES THAT THE PEOPLE WANT SHOULD BE ADHERRED TO. THE PEOPLE HAVE THE RIGHT TO MAKE THEIR VOICES HEARD THEY HAVE THE RIGHT TO INSIST THAT GOVERNMENT WHOM ARE ELECTED BY THEM ; ARE NOT IN POWER TO ASSUME UNLIMITED AND UNHINHIBBITED POWERS; POWERS THAT RELEGATE THE PEOPLE TO SERFS OR MERELY SUBJECTS OF THE GOVERNMENT. PEOPLE ARE THE MAIN SOURCE OF EVERY GOVERNMNENT THEIR VOICES THEIR OPINOINS ARE WHAT MAKES EVERY GOVERNMENT WHAT IT IS. WHEN THOSE WHO DENY THE ELECTORATE, IT IS THEN THE RIGHT OF INSTITUTIONS THAT ARE IN PLACE TO ASSERT THEIR POWERS TO CURTAIL THE ILLEGAL MOVE MENTS OF THOSE WHO SEEK POWER OTHER THAN DEMOCRATIC MEANS. ECOWAS NEEDS TO BECOME THE UNITED WEST AFRICAN INSTITUTION THAT IT IS SUPPOSED TO BE. WEST AFRICA IS STRONG IN RESOURCES IT HAS THE PEOPLE THE MAN POWER THE MENTAL CPACITY TO SUSTAIN A MILITARY SERVICE THAT IS MORE POWERFUL THAN ANY WEST AFRICAN NATIONAL FORCE. EVERY MEMBER STATE IN ECOWAS SHOULD VOLUNTARILY INSIST THAT THEIR ARMIES NAVIES AIR FORCES INTEGRATE INTO ONE FUNCTIONAL BODY THAT ELIVIATES ANY DELUSIONS OF GRANDUER BY ANY SOLE MILITARY REBELION TO SEEK CONTROL OF ANY MEMBER STATE. WITH THE UNIFIED MILITARY WING OF ECOWAS THIS INSTSITUTION COULD ONLY GO FROM STRENGTH TO STRENGTH. THEY WOULD HAVE A LEAN MACHINE CAPABLE OF CRUSHING ANY SUBVERSIVE ELEMNETS THAT ARE NOT PRPARED TO ALLOW AFRICA TO EMBARK ON ITS QUEST TO UNIFY AND GIVE THE PEOPLE ON THE CONTINENT THE OPPORTUNITY TO GROW AND BECOME EMPOWERED . THE NEED FOR AFRICAN CHILDREN IS ABSOLOUTE THAT THEY GROW FREE OF TRAUMA CONFLICT AND HAVE THE SAME ADVANTAGES OF ANY OTHER CHILD GROWING OUTSIDE AFRICA. AFRICA HAS ENOUGH RESOURCES TO MAKE SURE THAT THEFT OF RESOURCES FROM THE WEST AND THE INSIDE RS ARE FORBIDDEN. THE WEST OF AFRICA CAN SHOWCASE WHAT THE DEMOCRATIC MOVEMENT IS ALL ABOUT. FIRST AND FOREMOST WITHIN ALL AFRIUCA, WEST AFRICA WAS STILL A FUNCTIONING AND STRONG COMMUNITY WHEN THE COLONISERS THE ENSLAVERS CAME INTO AFRICA. THERE WERE UNIVERSITIES IN WEST AFRICA . WE MUST SHOW CASE THE SPIRIT OF MENTAL FORTITUDE WE MUST SHOW CASE OUR ORGANISATIONAL AND DEMOCRATIC IDEOLOGIES. WHAT THEY THE WEST HAS TAUGHT US IN AFRICA WE MUST RECOGNISE IT AS THE WORDS AND THOUGHTS OF CONQOUORERS . THEY WILL SEE HISTORY THRU THEIR EYES THESE ARE THEIR SHORT COMMINGS, THIS DOESNOT MAKE IT TRUE RIGHT OR FACTS. WHAT WE MUST DO IS REINTIATE AN AFRICAN RENASCIENCE THAT DOES NOT HAVE THE HIGHLIGHST OF WESTERN DICTATION. WE ARE NOT CLONES NOR ARE WE REMADE IN THEIR IMAGE. WE HAVE PRIDE IN OUR SELVES WE KNOW FOR A FACT THAT WE ARE THE PEOPLE WHO CIVILSED THE EARTH WE HAVE MONUMENTS OF GREAT AFRICAN FIGURES THRUOUT THE GLOBE. WHAT WE MUST DO IS KNOW FOR A FACT WHO WE ARE. WE ARE NOT SLAVES OF ANY HUMAN BEING WE DO NOT WORSHIP HUMAN BEINGS THERE ARE NO GREATER POWERS THAN THOSE OF OUR OWN MINDS. THE ONLY ENTITY THAT WE RECOGNISE IS THAT OF "OUR LORD THE ONE SOVEREIGN AND ALL MIGHTY GOD". THIS HAS BEEN AN AFRICAN TRADITION FROM EARTHS CREATION AS WE WERE THOSE WHO WERE GIEVN THE TEACHINSG OF ADAAM AND MOSES AND ALL THE PROPHETS. AFRICA CAN NOT BE SEPERATED BY THE WEST FROM ITS GEOGRAPHICAL LOCATION IT IS ONLY THE "ALL MIGHTY GOD" WHO CAN PHYSICALY WILL THAT AFRICA BE SEPERATED AS IT WAS DONE IN THE BEGINNING. TODAY WE ARE OUR OWN MASTERS AND WE MUST NOT DISCREDIT THE INSTITUTIONS THAT WE HAVE ,WHAT IS TRUE IS THAT THE AU IS IN PLACE BY THE LEADERS WE HAVE ELECTED TO OFFICE IN DUE TIME WE WIL HAVE THE NECESSARY POWERS AS AFRICAN CITISENS TO VOTE FOR ALL THE LEADERS WHO ARE IN PLACE AT THE AU. WHAT WE MUST DO TODAY IS STAND FIRM AS ONE WEST AFRICAN ENTITITY THERFORE MAKING IT A PART OF A WHOLE AFRICAN UNION. BORTHERS AND SITERS MALI NEEDS TO SEEK RECONCILIATION BETWEEN NORTH AND SOUTH. WHAT I SEE IN TIMBUKTU IS VERY REASONABLE THE PEOPLE WHO LIVE THERE RECOGNISE THAT THE AREA IS A VERY SACRED PLACE THEY WANT TO ELLIMINATE THE WESTERN ATTITUDES AND DRESS THEY ALSO WANT THE BANNING OF ALCOHOL AS THE PLACE IS VERY RIGHTEOUSS. THESE ARE VERY FAIR INETNTIONS WE NEED TO SEEK TO ADDRES THESE QUEST AND REACH A FUTURE THAT IS ACCEPTABLE FOR ALL. TO HAVE THIS PART FO MALI SHOW CASING ITS PROUD AND SPITITUAL PAST WOULD NOT HARM BUT BENIFIT THE NATION AND AFRICA WEST AFRICA VERY MUCH. PEOPLE WOULD COME FROM THE WORLD OVER TO HONOUR AND RESPECT THE GREAT PLACE THAT WS TIMBUKTU. THE DESIRES OF THE PEOPLE ARE NOT UNREASONABLE . WHAT NEEDS TO BE DONE IS A NEW FRESH PROSPECT FOR THE COUNTRY AFRICAN INTEGRATION IS A MUST WITHOUT IT THE IDEAS OF THE COLONIAL PROCESS IS BASED IN FAILURE. WHAT AFRICA MUST REMIND THEMSELVE STHE IMPERIAL COLONIAL ENSLAVERS WRE ONLY INTERESTED IN MAKIMNG SURE THAT THEIR PEOPLE BENIFITED FROM THE FAILURE OF AFRICA. WHAT IS AILING THE WEST TODAY IS THAT THEY NO LONGER HAVE THE OPTION OF OPPRESSING BULLYINMG EXTORTING STEALING TAKING FROM AFRICA. THEY HAVE TO PAY AS THEY GO ,THIS IS NEW TO THEM . THIS IS WHY THEIR ECONOMIES HAVE NOSE DIVED AND CRASHED TO THE GROUND. THIS WHY WE HAVE AFRICOM DESPERATELY TRYING TO REVITALISE THE IMPERIAL DOMINATION OVER AFRICA. WHAT THE YOUNG PEOPLE OF AFRICA ARE SAYING IS NO WAY. THEY WOULD RATHER BE HUNGRY THAN SUFFER SUCH IMPERIAL INDIGNITIES AND DOMINATION THAT ALOOWS FOR THE PEOPLE TO LIVE WITHOUT PRIDE AND BELIEF THAT THEY CAN ASPIRE TO REACH THEIR PERSONAL OBJECTIVES. THEY DO NOT WANT PUPPETS WHOM AE NOT WORKING FOR THE INTEREST OF THE PEOPLE . THIS IS WHY THEY ELCT PERSONS WHO ARE BELIEVING THE SAME THINGS THEY BELIVEELECTIONS VARIFY THESE THOUGHTS. SHOULD ELECTTED GOVERNMENTS NOT PROVE TO BE WHOM THEY PROFESSED TO BE BEFORE ELECTION THOSE WHO BECOME WEAK AND SUBVERT THE COURSE OF NATIONAL UNITY AND WORK ETHICS WONT BE ABLE TO HOLD THAT POST AS THE PEOPLE HAVE THE RIGHT AND WILL RISE UP AND DEMAND THAT, THAT PERSON STEPS DOWN. THESE AREM THE REASONS WHY IT IS NECESSARY TO PUT IN PLACE WEST AFRICAN MILITARY FORCES ONE THAT IS NOT SUBJECT OF ANY ONE NATION BUT SUBJECT OF ALL THE COUNTRIES AND THEY CAN NOT BE USED TO PREVENT PEACEFUL DEMONSTARTIONS NOR WILL THEY BE USED TO CONTROL POWER THEY WILL BE THE SERVANTS OF ALL WEST AFRICANS UNDER THE AUSPICE OF A MILITARY CHAIN OF COMMAND A TOP GENERAL, ELEECTED BY THE COMMISIONED OFFICERS AND THE GENERAL ,SUBJECT TO ALL ECOWAS ELECTED HEADS OF STATE. ANY ACTION WOULD BE SANCTIONED BY THE HEADS OF STATE AT A MEETING INCLUDING THE GENRALS . THE IDEA IS STRONG BUT WHAT IT WILL DO IS TO PREVENT ANY ANARCHY IN WEST AFRICA AND STOP THE ASPIRATIONS OF COUPS BEING LED BY AMBITIOUS MEN. THE WEST AFRICAN PEOPLE ON A WHOLE IS MORE IMPORTANT THAN ANY ONE MEMEBER STAE. REMBER THAT IT ODES NOT MAKE SENSE UNLESS THE DEMILIRAISATION OF STATE ARMIES LEAVING THE POLICE TO DEAL WITH INETRIOR CONFLICTS. PEOPEL WOULD KNOW THAT THEY AHVE THE UNDENIABLE RIGHT TO DEMONSTRATE. NO WSTERN GOVERNMENT IS AS DEMOCRATIC AS THIS. WE WOULD NOT SEE TANKS ON THE STREETS AND ARMY UNITS FROM BARRACKS THE ONLYTIME WE WOULD SEE THAT IF WEST AFRICA CAME IUNDER THREAT. THE ARMIES WOULD BE USED TO QUELL PIRATING DRUG TRAFFICKING ETC.MILTARY COUPS WOULD BE THE SOLE RESPONSIBILTY OF ECOWAS.