After Mali Coup, Mutineers Pledge Fresh Elections

JOHANNESBURG—Military officers who led a coup in Mali that forced the resignation of President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita revealed on their own Wednesday, pledging to promptly manage new elections and tame the twin political and safety crises that have gripped this strategically critical West African nation.

Dressed in beat fatigues and sitting down behind a wood desk, 5 soldiers appeared on point out television soon right after sunrise. A spokesman for the mutineers, calling on their own the National Committee for the Salvation of the…