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Government staves off army mutiny

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    The Malian authorities moved quickly this week to prevent a mutiny by discontented soldiers demanding bonuses due to them for peacekeeping duties abroad, BBC reported.

    The soldiers believed to have been behind the rebellion include peacekeepers who served with the West African force, ECOMOG, in Sierra Leone and the UN forces in Central African Republic. A similar protest on 23 December 1999 by Ivoirian peacekeepers who had just returned home developed into a full-fledged coup.

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