"Safe hand" Traore must put Mali back on track

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BAMAKO (Reuters) - A labor activist turned political grandee, Mali's Dioncounda Traore will be sworn in as interim president on Thursday with the job of pulling his West African country back from the brink of collapse. As speaker of national parliament, he inherits power from the hapless leaders of a March 22 coup which spectacularly backfired by emboldening the very rebellion they wanted to destroy. Northern Tuareg rebels and their allies are now in effective control of three-quarters of the country. ...




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