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People greet former president Amadou Toumani Toure (3rd L) as he disembarks from a plane in Bamako on December 24, 2017, as he returns for the first time to Mali from living in exile in Senegal since a coup deposed him in 2012. Toure flew into the capital, Bamako, the scene of his downfall on March 22, 2012, when mutinous soldiers overthrew the government and detained him. The coup led by army captain Amadou Sanogo toppled what had been heralded as one of the region's most stable democracies, before the country's northern territory was overrun by Islamist rebels allied with Al-Qaeda. (Photo by Michele Cattani/AFP Photo)
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