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Mali’s transitional government has pardoned 49 Ivorian soldiers arrested earlier this year, a spokesman said on Friday.
The soldiers were arrested in July at the airport in the Malian capital Bamako and were accused of conspiring against the Malian government.
Why were the soldiers arrested?
46 soldiers were sentenced to 20 years imprisonment on December 30 for allegedly attempting to undermine state security. Three others, who had been released in September, were sentenced to death in…
