Soumaïla Cissé’s Union pour la république et la démocratie and over 40 other parties had argued that the electoral register be based on an administrative census using biometric data to prevent fraud...
On 27 March presidential candidate Soumaïla Cissé addressed a crowd of about 1 000 in the capital urging the military to return to barracks and fight the rebels not the civilian government...
Soumaïla Cissé of the Union pour la république et la démocratie (URD) has a more technocratic image after eight years heading the Ouagadougou-based commission of the Union économique et monétaire ouest-africaine...
Yet the PDES will have to resist the clubby pressures towards consensus and develop ties with potential challengers to Adema such as the Union pour la république et la démocratie and its probable candidate Soumaïla Cissé who heads the Commission of the West African Economic and Monetary Union...
Those are the formidable goals set for the ADB in a report launched in Tunis on 22 January by a high-level panel led by former President of Mozambique Joaquim Chissano; former Prime Minister of Canada Paul Martin; Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz; President of the West African Economic and Monetary Union Soumaila Cissé; and Uganda’s Central Bank Governor Emmanuel Tumusiime-Mutebile...
Other heavyweights backing ATT include Union Economique et Monétaire Ouest-Africaine Commissioner Soumaïla Cissé and Choguel Kokalla Maïga Finance Minister and President of the Mouvement Patriotique pour le Renouveau...
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Another potential candidate Soumaïla Cissé has handed his support to ATT who remains hugely popular despite displeasing some southerners by overseeing a compromise settlement last year with northern Tuareg mutineers...
Three men contested (AC Vol 44 No 8): Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta ('IBK') Soumaïla Cissé and the eventual winner General Amadou Toumani Touré ('ATT')...
In January Wade blocked the appointment of former Adema Finance and Public Works Minister Soumaïla Cissé as Secretary General of the Union Economique et Monétaire Ouest-Africaine (UEMOA)...
Deal or not ATT was greatly helped by political schisms that damaged the party politicians standing against him former Prime Minister Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta (IBK) and former Economy and Finance Minister Soumaïla Cissé...
