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Mali

Mali

Population: 13.9 million
GNI: $6100 million
Debt: $2800 million
Overview: President Amadou Toumani Touré is launching a new development drive as income from gold and cotton exports looks uncertain. A Tuareg rebellion in the north persists.

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  • Vol 43 No 11
  • 31/05/2002

He's back

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

  • Vol 43 No 9
  • 03/05/2002

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
  • 28/09/2001

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
  • 15/06/2001

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
  • 15/09/2000

Playing the offside rule

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

  • Vol 40 No 22
  • 05/11/1999

Counter-attack

Beleaguered President Alpha Oumar Konaré and Prime Minister Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta chose la rentrée and the end of the rainy season to counter-attack, following unprecedented criticism of both men over corruption and incompetence (AC...

  • Vol 40 No 15
  • 23/07/1999

Power cuts

Ambitious rivals cut the President down to size while Toumani Touré waits in the wings

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