(FILES) In this file photo taken on August 10, 2018 Mali's incumbent president Ibrahim Boubacar Keita (C) sits before addressing his supporters during his last political rally in Bamako ahead of the runoff vote in Mali's presidential election on August 12. - Gunfire broke out at a key army base near Mali's capital Bamako on August 18, 2020, officials and witnesses said, triggering fears of a mutiny in the crisis-stricken Sahel state.
Details of the events were sketchy, but the sources said the soldiers fired their guns into the air at a base in Kati, a town some 15 kilometres (nine miles) from Bamako. (Photo by Michele CATTANI / AFP)