Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta (IBK)

The ministers' itinerary included meetings with Malian President Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta and his Nigerien counterpart Mahamadou Issoufou visits to Gao a key base for French and Minusma troops and a tour of a local non-governmental organisation workshop that is restoring ancient manuscripts saved from the jihadist occupation of Timbuktu in 2012...

With the restoration of constitutional rule and subsequent election of President Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta (IBK) normality was reasserted outside the north...

President Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta is failing to take a strong political lead or resist the clannish family and vested interests that convinced him to dismiss his already weakened modernising Prime Minister Moussa Mara in January...

President Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta is in the midst of another big public spending row after making a supposedly personal gift of 1 000 tractors to rural communities just in time for the next farming season...

Three days after presiding on 20 June over the signing in Bamako of a peace agreement between northern rebels and President Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta Mongi Hamdi was in New York trying to drum up support at the United Nations Security Council to prolong the peacekeepers' presence...

Missed callScepticism about President Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta (IBK) is something northerners and southerners share...

While the north dominates the news Mara faces ample pressure on other fronts not least recurrent rumours that President Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta might soon drop him...

Accordingly President Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta's government in Bamako has been openly celebrating the downfall of Compaoré...

The government's position has been further hampered by the failure of President Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta to provide visionary political leadership and set out in accessible popular terms a picture of what a rebuilt Mali including the north could look like...

And Koenders' relations with President Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta have been dire...