Mali: "I'm going back to the mosque," says Imam Dicko, opposition figure, after the fall of President Keïta

" I'm going back to the mosque, I'm an imam, " Imam Mahmoud Dicko, a moral figure in the opposition in Mali, said on Friday August 21, " thanking " the soldiers who overthrew President Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta and calling to " drive out the demons of division ".

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" I want to reconcile all Malians from Kayes (West) to Kidal (North-East) ", added in front of thousands of demonstrators the influential religious leader, whose role was crucial in the mobilization against President Keïta, finally driven out. power on Tuesday with a military coup condemned by the international community but welcomed by the Malian opposition.