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
...
Things have turned unexpectedly nasty for the huge Saharan
state
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.
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...
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...
President Touré is poised to win a second term in Mali's
presidential election on 29 April
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.
Football riots and fears of terrorism are undermining ATT's reputation
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...
The soldier-turned-president's carefully crafted consensus is
threatened by a confident opposition
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