Local media aBamako.com reported that the junta leaders, who forced President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita (IBK) to step down, were in Russia on a training program organized by Russian Armed Forces ahead of the military coup. Colonel Malick Diaw and Sadio Camara, believed to be the chief architects of the August 18 coup d’etat, spent a year in Russia at the … Continue reading Was Russia behind the coup in Mali?