Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta (IBK)

The assembled heads of state – Mahamadou Issoufou of Niger Roch Marc Christian Kaboré of Burkina Faso (currently the G5 Executive President) Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta of Mali Idriss Déby Itno of Chad and Mohamed Cheikh el Ghazouani of Mauritania pleaded for more allies in the fight against terrorism...

Côte d'Ivoire's President Alassane Ouattara his Malian counterpart Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta Nigeria's Muhammadu Buhari and Niger's Mahamadou Issoufou who chaired the meeting gathered to try to turn the underfunded understaffed and underwhelming anti-terrorist Force Conjointe du G5 Sahel into a credible fighting machine...

With his 2018 re-election safely out of the way President Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta has been forced to take such concrete measures by the paralysis in the northern peace process and the spectacular disintegration of stability across central regions...

A day later President Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta announced the appointment of former interim President Dioncounda Traoré as Presidential High Representative for Central Mali although it is unclear what his mandate is...

On the national political front the presidential election went smoothly and President Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta was re-elected for a second term...

Sawegnon is the founder-director of Voodoo Communications which designed the slick re-election campaign materials for Ouattara in 2015 and Mali's Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta this year (AC Vol 59 No 15 Electoral déja-vu)...

Despite a calamitous first five years in office President Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta (IBK) sailed through the first round of the presidential election with 42% of the vote amid a flurry of allegations of electoral fraud...

Both the incumbent President Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta and his main challenger in the 29 July presidential election Soumaïla Cissé offer the electorate security improved basic services and infrastructure a diversified economy and jobs for the young...

Super planes at super prices Three years after ordering them President Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta went to the military air base at Senou on 12 July to inspect his new toys: four Embraer A-29 Super Tucano ground-attack aircraft...

President Mahamadou Issoufou of Niger who assumed the G5 presidency from President Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta of Mali at a summit in Niamey early last month was quick to offer condolences and support...

Political leadership lies with G5 heads of state with the group's 6 February summit in Niamey seeing Niger's President Mahamadou Issoufou take over the rotating chairmanship from Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta of Mali...

Political turmoil in Bamako If any further illustration were needed of the sense of crisis pervading the government led by President Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta (IBK) it came from the United Nations...