Renegade soldiers seize power in Mali

2012-03-22 124

Renegade soldiers in Mali claim to have seized power from an "incompetent regime," announcing on television on Thursday that they had suspended the constitution and dissolved state institutions. The putschists, calling themselves the National Committee for the Establishment of Democracy, said they had acted due to government's "inability" to handle a Tuareg-led insurrection in the north of the country. Duration: 00:49