[AlAhram] Mali's military junta has released two senior government officials detained during the coup against President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita, an ally of Keita said, as U.N. human rights
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officials met overnight with the ousted leader.
There has been no word from Keita since Tuesday, when he dissolved parliament and then resigned after being detained at gunpoint, deepening the crisis facing a country already struggling to fend off an insurgency by Islamist holy warriors.
The release of Finance Minister Abdoulaye Daffe and the president's private secretary, Sabane Mahalmoudou, came as junta leaders held discussions with politicians about creating a transitional authority.
"They were freed but I don't know in what condition," the head of Keita's party, Bocary Treta, told Rooters.
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human rights team visited Keita and other detainees late on Thursday, the U.N. peacekeeping mission, known as MINUSMA, said. It provided no details on what was said or on the condition of the captives.
The streets of the capital Bamako were calm for the third straight day on Friday ahead of a rally planned by an opposition coalition that led protests against Keita before the coup and has since embraced the mutineers. 
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