Former Mali President, Amadou Toumani Toure has died at the age of 72.
A family member identified as Oumar Toure disclosed to newsmen on Tuesday that he died in Turkey where he had been undergoing medical treatments.
The former army general was celebrated for enacting democratic reforms in the West African nation but was ousted in a military coup in 2012.
Toure came to power in 1991, when he led a coup against dictator Moussa Traore, after 22 years of hardline rule. Traore died in Mali September.
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