The judicial decision to sentence Moussa Mara, the former Prime Minister of Mali, to two years in prison—including one year of mandatory detention—along with a
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Click to expand Image In a courtroom in Bamako, former Prime Minister Moussa Mara stood composed as the judiciary dismissed his defense team’s request for