Instead, Mali's goals came from midfielders like Soumaila Coulibaly, Seydou Keita and Bassala Toure.
Samba Coulibaly said one Malian soldier was killed and eight others were wounded in the attack Wednesday night.
One of them, N'golo Coulibaly, has been appointed finance minister and three other associates of Mr Ouattara are now in the junta.
Victory appeared to be in sight for Cameroon when Malian referee Komlan Coulibaly awarded a penalty after Salomon Olembe tumbled in the box.
The worst example of institutional weakness, argues Mr Coulibaly, was the sinking of a ferry in 2002, when more than 800 people perished.
Coulibaly is still arguably the Eagles' greatest goal threat, and he scored twice as they disposed of Guinea Bissau in the 2006 World Cup qualifiers preliminary round.
"The threat concerns all civilised countries, " AFP news agency quotes Mali's Foreign Minister Tieman Coulibaly as saying as he arrived for the international support group for Mali in Brussels on Tuesday.
Samba Coulibaly, spokesman for the Malian military in Timbuktu.
Even more recently, World Cup soccer brought us another example of the wrong call when referee Koman Coulibaly disallowed what should have been the game-winning goal by the United States in their match against Slovenia.
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Malian Ambassador to South Africa Sinaly Coulibaly said that while African history and culture were often associated with an oral tradition, the Timbuktu documents were a reminder that African knowledge comprises both a written and oral tradition.
"We will organise the elections throughout the national territory in order to reunite the minds of Malians, reunite their hearts, and to enable Mali to remain one and indivisible, " Territorial Administration Minister Moussa Sinko Coulibaly told a news conference in the capital, Bamako, on Thursday.
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