Military coup in Mali: reasons and consequences

... adversaries from the previous elections: Sidibé and Cissé. The purpose of these coups was supposedly to counteract the invasion of the Tuaregs and the resistance of the army. Eventually, the Tuaregs took the offensive, seized a large portion of land from Mali and declared sovereignty of the self-proclaimed state of Azawad. Immediately following the coup, the army started looting and pillaging in Bamako and other cities. The primary targets were light-skinned people, lending the conflict a racist overtone (the Tuaregs are known as “the whites of the desert”)....