Mali: Does Mali's Coup Advance Democracy?

[allAfrica] Washington, DC -- In an all too familiar scene, on Aug. 18, Malian soldiers arrested the president and other senior officials, took over state television, and put themselves in charge. This is the second coup in Mali since 2012, when the country spiraled into a multi-layered crisis that persists to this day. The leaders of the coup are calling it a popular revolution, and Mali's main opposition movement, known as M5-RFP, has celebrated the forced resignation of President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita