Mali's junta pledges to seek quick power handover

Mali's junta promised on Saturday to quickly come up with new proposals aimed at handing power back to civilians after last week's widely condemned coup.

"We do not want to confiscate power," senior junta member Colonel Moussa Sinko Coulibaly told a news conference in Ouagadougou, the capital of Burkina Faso, after talks with Burkina President Blaise Compaore, the main mediator in the crisis. (Reuters)