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Mali
Population: 13.4 mn.
GDP: 9.4 bn.
Debt: 1.2 bn.
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Soumaïla Cissé, Dioncounda Traoré and Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta will run for president in April to succeed Amadou Toumani Touré. Education reforms and strengthening of Sahel security policy will dominate the political agenda.

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  • Vol 52 No 24
  •  2nd December 2011

Presidential poll wide open

Voters ask why President Touré wants to reform the constitution and boost women’s rights before next year’s elections

  • Vol 52 No 24
  •  2nd December 2011

Enemies in the north

The serenity of the elections contrasts starkly with deteriorating security in the north, with hundreds of well-armed Tuareg fighters and weapons streaming in from Libya, increased Tuareg banditry and more operations by Al Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb.

  • Vol 51 No 19
  •  24th September 2010

Niger, Mauritania, Mali: the politics

For Niger, the crisis with Al Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) comes as the military regime that overthrew President Mamadou Tandja last February approaches the return of democracy.

  • Vol 51 No 15
  •  23rd July 2010

A formidable new party

Party leaders face a new challenger for the 2012 succession to retiring President Amadou Toumani Touré (ATT). The Parti pour le développement économique et solidaire (PDES), launched on 17 July with ATT's not-so-tacit backing, present...

  • Vol 50 No 24
  •  4th December 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
  •  14th November 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 ass...

  • Vol 49 No 13
  •  20th June 2008

Tough times

Things have turned unexpectedly nasty for the huge Saharan state

  • Vol 49 No 13
  •  20th June 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
  •  1st February 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
  •  11th May 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 turnout wa...

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