President Toure formally resigned, in a deal with coup leaders, leaving the parliamentary speaker to take over. Islamist fighters cut the throat of a member of a secular group in the northern city of Gao, where Islamists led by Ansar Dine, which is affiliated with al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, are gaining ground. Islamists have seized the center of Timbuktu.
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