Mutinying soldiers detain Mali president and PM, deepening crisis.
Keita's detention at his residence in southwestern Bamako followed hours of uncertainty after soldiers mutinied in the morning at the Kati military base outside Bamako and rounded up a number of senior civilian officials and military officers.
It was not immediately clear who was leading the mutineers, who would govern in Keita's absence or what the mutineers' motivations were. A military spokesman said he had no information. A mutiny in 2012 at the same Kati base led to a military coup that toppled then-President Amadou Toumani Toure and hastened the fall of Mali's north to jihadist militants.
French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said France "condemns in the strongest terms this grave event". The U.S. envoy to the Sahel, J. Peter Pham, said on Twitter that "the U.S. is opposed to all extra-constitutional changes of government".
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