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Mali: Alpha Yaya Sangaré, the colonel felled by his book launch, gets 20 years in prison

Sentenced for publishing an essay on terrorism in Mali, Colonel Sangaré is also paying the price for the enemies he had made within the junta — in particular the ambitions that intelligence chief Modibo Koné suspected him of harbouring.

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Original headline: “Mali: Alpha Yaya Sangaré, the colonel felled by his book launch, gets 20 years in prison

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