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BAMAKO (Reuters) – Former interim Mali president Bah Ndaw and Prime Minister Moctar Ouane have been released from house arrest by authorities who ousted them in May, a transition monitoring committee said on Friday post-coup.
Their detention by the military in May marked the second coup in Mali since the overthrow of President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita last August.
The political upheaval has alarmed regional powers and allies like France, who feared it could delay a promised return to civilian rule via democratic elections slated for February 2022.
An international body that follows this political transition has pushed the current interim authorities to release the two from house arrest.
The committee, which includes representatives from the West African regional bloc of ECOWAS and the African Union, said in a statement that it welcomed the decision to lift these restrictions.
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“The committee reaffirms its support for the transition process in Mali,” he said.
A representative of the Malian authorities did not respond to a request for comment.
(Reporting by Paul Lorgerie and Tiemoko Diallo; Writing by Alessandra Prentice; Editing by Susan Fenton)
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