Amadou Toumani Touré (ATT)

Neither was tainted by the excesses of ex-president Amadou Toumani Touré's calamitous second term of office but most Malians see them as yesterday's men incapable of breathing new life into their democracy let alone master the near-civil war in the troubled north and centre of the country...

Government deputies' attitude to Mara contrasts with their vote not to seek a judicial enquiry into former head of state Amadou Toumani Touré's handling of northern issues during the lead-up to the jihadist takeover of the north in 2012 (AC Vol 53 No 15 The jihadists take over )...

The trial could mark a grim reckoning for Sanogo's Comité national pour le redressement de la démocratie et la restauration de l'Etat which took control on 22 March 2012 as President Amadou Toumani Touré (ATT) fled mutineers furious at government neglect of frontline troops in the north a large numbers of whom were massacred by jihadists (AC Vol 53 No 7 Rebels and putschists)...

SBM was head of the intelligence service in the 1990s under Mali's first democratic President Alpha Oumar Konaré and later Foreign Minister under his successor Amadou Toumani Touré...

One dates the problems back to former French President Nicolas Sarkozy who opened up discussion about an Azawad autonomous region before the overthrow of President Amadou Toumani Touré in 2012 (AC Vol 53 No 7 Rebels and putschists)...

Such is the disillusionment with a man elected with a landslide 78% of the vote only nine months ago that some Malians have half-seriously proposed that the deeply unpopular former President Amadou Toumani Touré return (AC Vol 54 No 17 IBK's agenda)...

Relations with Mali which were poor when President Amadou Toumani Touré ruled have markedly improved...

As a result some are starting to warn of a possible return to the corrupting consensus approach of ex-President Amadou Toumani Touré who coopted amenable politicians with lavish patronage...

His recent visit to Mauritania produced an agreement with a government that was bitterly critical of ex-President Amadou Toumani Touré's failure to police and defend Mali's frontiers...

Individuals close to former President Amadou Toumani Touré are even accused of close personal ties to South American cocaine traffickers...