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Former president, Amadou Toumani Toure of Mali who steered the Sahel nation to democracy and led it for a decade before being ousted in a coup, has died in Turkey aged 72, a family member and a doctor said on Tuesday.

Timbuktu is a city in Mali, West Africa. It was an import trade center of the Mali Empire which flourished between 13th and 15th century CE.