The United Nations Security Council is holding an emergency meeting on Mali Tuesday, as military coup leaders remain in power and West African nations levy sanctions on the country.
United Nations to Meet on Mali
Malians queued to withdraw money from banks in the capital Bamako, April 3, 2012, after neighboring countries including Ivory Coast and Niger launched trade and diplomatic sanctions. (Reuters)
Coup leader Capt. Amadou Haya Sanogo, center, with Burkina Faso Foreign Affairs Minister Djibril Bassole (left) addresses the press at junta headquarters in Kati, outside Bamako, Mali, April 1, 2012. The leader of Mali's recent coup says he is reinstating
Malian junta soldiers stand guard at their headquarters in Kati, outside Bamako, Mali, April 1, 2012. (Reuters)
A view of Bamako, Mali, April 1, 2012. (Reuters)
People shopping among the stalls at the Grand Market in Bamako, March 31, 2012. (AP)
Residents of the capital had held off on purchasing non-essential items, according to vendors at the Grand Market, in Bamako, Mali, March 31, 2012. (AP)
In this March 18, 2004, file photo. Malian soldiers from the 512th Motorised Infantry company complete their training by U.S. Special Forces in the desert near Timbuktu in Mali as part of the U.S. Pan-Sahel Initiative to secure the Sahel region from being
Coup leader Capt. Amadou Haya Sanogo, left, in Bamako, Mali, March 29, 2012. (AP)
Pro-military Malian youth gather in support of the Army coup d'etat in the capital Bamako, March 26, 2012. (Reuters)