TODAY IN HISTORY | MALI 

On July 15, 1991 a coup attempt in Mali was foiled and the ringleader, Captain Lamine Diabira, the interior minister, detained.

The alleged coup plot was immediately known, the official sources said some soldiers in the key army base at Kati, 15km from Bamako, were involved.

Shops and offices closed in Bamako as the news of the coup spread through the West African country of eight million people.