FILE PHOTO: A wreath is laid by a monument on Martyrs' Day, celebrated as a commemoration of the day when General Moussa Traore's rule was overthrown on March 26, 1991, in Bamako March 26, 2013. REUTERS/Adama Diarra
BAMAKO (Reuters) - Mali's former military leader Moussa Traore, who overthrew his predecessor in a 1968 coup, has died at the age of 83, a spokesman for the country's military junta said on Tuesday.
Traore ousted Modibo Keita, Mali's first democratically elected president since the West African nation's independence from France in 1960, and ruled until 1991 when he himself was overthrown in a military takeover.
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