Article 18 herein above may be applied by the competent court pursuant to the conditions spelt out in this code. ARTICLE 43: Besides those referred to in article 24, any Malian or foreign national who commits the following acts shall be punished as an accomplice or accessory: 1° provides, knowing the intentions of the perpetrators of felonies and misdemeanours against external State security, allowances, means of livelihood, housing, hideout and meeting location; 2° carries knowingly the correspondence of perpetrators of felonies or misdemeanours against State security or who helps them in any manner whatsoever, to look for, receive, transport or transmit the object of the felony or misdemeanour ; 3° receives knowingly, objects or instruments used or to be used to commit the felony or misdemeanour or material objects or documents gotten from the felony or misdemeanour; 4° destroys, takes away, receives, hides or changes knowingly a public or private document that could facilitate the investigation of the felony or misdemeanour, the discovery of evidence or the punishment of its perpetrators. ARTICLE 44: Except as expressly provided otherwise, the penalties provided for felonies and misdemeanours against external State security shall be applied to those for offences committed in times of peace and in times of war. The government may, by decree of the Council of Ministers, extend either in times of war or in times of peace, all or part of the provisions aimed at felonies and misdemeanours against powers that are allies or friends of Mali. CHAPTER II: CRIMES AGAINST THE INTERNAL SECURITY OF THE STATE SECTION i: ATTACKS AND CONSPIRACIES AGAINST THE GOVERNMENT ARTICLE 45 : Attacks intended to forcefully overthrow the legal government or change the republican form of the State, incite citizens or inhabitants to arm themselves against authority, shall be punishable with the death or imprisonment for life or for a term. An attempt to commit these crimes shall be liable to the same punishment as the commission of the actual crime itself. ARTICLE 46: A conspiracy shall be found to exist immediately a resolution to act has been discussed and agreed upon among two or several people. A conspiracy intended to commit the crimes stated in the previous article, if it has been followed by an act committed or launched to prepare its execution, shall be punished with imprisonment of between five to twenty years. If the conspiracy has not been followed by any act committed or launched to prepare its execution, the sentence shall be imprisonment of between five to ten years. If a suggestion was made but there was no agreement to act, or form a conspiracy to commit the offences stated in the previous article, the person who makes such a suggestion shall be punished with imprisonment of between one to five years and, optionally, a fine of between 20,000 and 500,000 francs as well as a residence prohibition of between five to ten years. SECTION Il: CRIMES UNDERMINING THE INTERNAL SECURITY OF THE STATE OR TERRITORITAL INTEGRITY THROUGH CIVIL WAR, ILLEGAL USE OF ARMED FORCE, DEVASTATION AND PUBLIC LOOTING ARTICLE 47: An attack intended to either cause one part of the territory of the Republic to secede, or incite civil war, by arming or pushing citizens or inhabitants to arm themselves against one another, or to carry out devastation, massacre or looting in one or several regions, towns, councils and villages of the Republic, shall be punishable with death or life imprisonment. 13