“The soldiers in Mali who led the coup that has toppled President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita promised Wednesday to hold fresh elections to return the country to civilian rule, amid swift condemnation of their putsch across Africa and the international community. The mutinous soldiers who staged Tuesday’s coup identified themselves as the National Committee for the Salvation of the People in an address on state broadcaster ORTM. ‘With you, standing as one, we can restore this country to its former greatness,’ said spokesman Col. Maj. Ismael Wague, announcing that Mali’s borders were closed and imposing a nighttime curfew from 9 p.m. to 5 a.m. Wague said the committee will implement a transition to civil political rule with elections held in a ‘reasonable amount of time,’ without specifying a timeline” the AP reports.