Where is amadou toure

ON TV. On social media. Who are we? Fight the Fake. Daily newsletter Receive essential international news every morning Subscribe. The former Malian president had undergone heart surgery in Bamako before being evacuated to Turkey.

Overthrown by a coup in , ATT has long lived in exile in Senegal. He returned permanently to Mali in December Then a lieutenant-colonel, he was appointed head of the Transitional Committee for the Salvation of the People and served as head of state during the transition. The former army general won acclaim for pursuing democratic reforms before being ousted in a military coup in The former army general was celebrated for enacting democratic reforms in the West African nation, but was ousted in a military coup in Toure came to power in , when he led a coup against dictator Moussa Traore, after 22 years of hardline rule.

Traore died in Mali September. A doctor in the Malian capital of Bamako told AFP news agency that Toure had recently undergone heart surgery in the city's Luxembourg Hospital, which he had helped to found. Although "everything seemed to be going well," he transferred to Turkey for medical reasons, the doctor said. Toure, often called simply ATT after his initials, won presidential elections in and again in However, mutinous soliders accused him of failing to support their fight against both Tuareg rebels and jihadist insurgents, and overthew him.

As a year-old army colonel, he led the coup that ended more than two decades of authoritarian rule and initiated the transition to multiparty democracy. A decade later he again served as president. Two decades later, his reputation lay in tatters. He became a paratrooper and rose through the ranks , ultimately commanding the airborne regiment and the presidential guard. He arrested the president, halted the bloody crackdown against demonstrators, and established an interim government.