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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 48 No 9
  •  27th April 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
  •  27th April 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
  •  10th June 2005

Soccer, Islam and hard times

Football riots and fears of terrorism are undermining ATT's reputation

  • Vol 46 No 10
  •  13th May 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 International D...

  • Vol 44 No 8
  •  18th April 2003

Bamako blues

The soldier-turned-president's carefully crafted consensus is threatened by a confident opposition

  • Vol 43 No 11
  •  31st May 2002

He's back

The interest groups that helped Touré into the presidency want their reward

  • Vol 43 No 9
  •  3rd May 2002

Recycled general

Former military leader Amadou Toumani Touré (ATT) was running narrowly ahead on 1 May with some 27 per cent of the vote in Mali's 28 April presidential elections. Counting was set to continue for hours more as we went to press; challenges to the co...

  • Vol 42 No 19
  •  28th September 2001

Stand to ATTention

By the end of October Mali's national hero, General Amadou Toumani Touré (ATT), will almost certainly announce that he'll stand in next year's presidential election. ATT is said to have agonised for months over the move.

  • Vol 42 No 12
  •  15th June 2001

Of mud and men

General Amadou Toumani Touré's snap appointment as United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan's special envoy to Central African Republic (see Feature: Plot and panic) has delayed the expected announcement of his candidacy in next year's president...

  • Vol 41 No 18
  •  15th September 2000

Playing the offside rule

The football cup, botched polls and graft threaten Konaré's political legacy

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