Imam Mahmoud Dicko, a central figure in the political crisis in Mali, bluntly warned the soldiers who had just taken power on Friday, urging them to keep the promise of change and refusing to give them " carte blanche ".
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“ I asked everyone to come together around Mali. I always ask, but that does not mean that the military have carte blanche ”, declared this eminent public and religious personality in front of hundreds of people, ten days after the putsch which overthrew President Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta.