Security and northern affairs will be handled by a clutch of heavyweights: Cheick Diarra  Defence Minister Soumeylou Boubeye Maïga  who is well-connected in Algiers  and former 1990s Arab rebel Zahabi Ould Sidi Mohamed  who has Foreign Mffairs...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
	
	     Intense speculation surrounds the intentions of Soumeylou Boubèye Maïga  Foreign Minister during the last year of the presidency of Amadou Toumani Touré (ATT) in 2012 (AC Vol 48 No 9  ATT seeks takokélén and Politicians and their parties)...
 Intense speculation surrounds the intentions of Soumeylou Boubèye Maïga  Foreign Minister during the last year of the presidency of Amadou Toumani Touré (ATT) in 2012 (AC Vol 48 No 9  ATT seeks takokélén and Politicians and their parties)...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
	
	     Typically low turnout was up to 36% from 20% in 2002 and ATT beat all comers - even in their hometowns: Soumeylou Boubèye Maiga in Gao  Tiébilé Dramé in Nioro and Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta (IBK) in Bamako...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
	
	     Soumeylou Boubèye Maiga  ex-Defence Minister and Vice-President of Adema  says he will be a candidate...
 Soumeylou Boubèye Maiga  ex-Defence Minister and Vice-President of Adema  says he will be a candidate...