Mali’s President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita and Prime Minister Boubou Cissé were detained by mutinying soldiers on Tuesday, according to security sources.
It comes after soldiers fired shots at an army base in Kati, 15 km outside of the capital Bamako.
In 2012, a mutiny unfolded at the same base, leading to a coup that toppled the former president Amadou Toumani Toure.
The West African bloc ECOWAS called for an end to the…