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- Vol 50 No 24
- 04/12/2009
Drugs and thugs
Interpol is investigating the fate of a Boeing jet carrying some 10 tonnes of cocaine which landed in Mali on 2 November and may have been deliberately destroyed. The Boeing had taken off from Venezuela, according to Alexandre Schmidt, Director of the reg...
- Vol 49 No 23
- 14/11/2008
Towards Mali
Last week's discovery of a consignment of weapons in a car en route to Mali raises yet more questions about corruption and divisions within Guinea's security forces. A team of gendarmes, commanded by Lieutenant Amadou Diogo Dramé, found 25 PMAK ...
- Vol 49 No 13
- 20/06/2008
Tough times
Things have turned unexpectedly nasty for the huge Saharan state
- Vol 49 No 13
- 20/06/2008
Third term triangle
Mali's democratic credentials are wearing thin at home despite winning international plaudits in the 16 years since Amadou Toumani Touré started the constitutional revolution in 1992.
- Vol 49 No 3
- 01/02/2008
Ordinary rendition
A diplomatic storm is brewing as Mozambican police crack down on West Africans they accuse of being illegal miners. The formal tone of a letter from the Mozambican High Commission in Pretoria, South Africa, announcing it has ‘the honour to inform’ the Gui...
- Vol 48 No 10
- 11/05/2007
La caravane passe au Mali
Malian President Amadou Toumani Touré's electoral triumph ends 'the politics of consensus' in place since 2002. Results from the Minister of Territorial Administration, General Kafougouna Koné, give ATT 70% of votes. Typically low turnou...
- Vol 48 No 9
- 27/04/2007
ATT seeks takokélén
President Touré is poised to win a second term in Mali's presidential election on 29 April
- Vol 48 No 9
- 27/04/2007
Politicians and their parties
Born in Mopti, Amadou Toumani Touré (ATT, 52) is backed by over 30 parties and myriad civil society organisations, along with the nebulous, 'apolitical' Mouvement Citoyen (Citizen's Movement), whose main activity is to support ATT.
- Vol 46 No 12
- 10/06/2005
Soccer, Islam and hard times
Football riots and fears of terrorism are undermining ATT's reputation
- Vol 46 No 10
- 13/05/2005
Belgium's man in Africa
Little did a royal Belgian foundation expect that by bestowing a prize on Mali's shy, soft-spoken former Territorial Administration Minister, it would reignite controversy over the 2002 elections. On 3 May, Ousmane Sy won the King Baudouin Internation...
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