Foreign leaders will not have made the trip.
The national funeral of former dictator and president of Mali Moussa Traoré took place on Friday, September 18 in the presence of members of the ruling junta and former national officials.
In the morning, a funeral band marked the arrival of the body in a coffin draped in the colors of Mali in a military camp in Bamako where the funeral took place, in the presence of soldiers in ceremonial dress.
Moussa Traoré died on September 15 in Bamako at the age of 83, after having ruled Mali for 22 years, following a coup that overthrew President Modibo Keïta in 1968, in power since 1960 .
His body was placed near the presidential platform, in the presence of Colonel Assimi Goïta, head of the National Committee of Public Safety (CNSP), the body set up by the junta currently in power.
Colonel Goïta, alongside other junta officials, did not speak at the ceremony, which was attended by hundreds of people.
With AFP
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