Voting is set to go to a second round on 12 May pitting ATT against Soumaïla Cissé the candidate of the ruling Alliance pour la Démocratie au Mali (Adema) running second or IBK (who parted company bitterly with Adema) running a close third...
Public Works Minister Soumaïla Cissé and army chief Maïga both reformers are the most prominent barons each with powerful factions capable of ripping the party asunder in hot-spots such as Bamako and the Fifth Region...
The senior survivor of IBK's previous cabinet is Soumaïla Cissé with four portfolios: Public Works National Development Planning Town Planning and Environment...
At the long-delayed second party conference on 7-10 October anti-Keïta factions were thoroughly outmanoeuvred: Finance Minister Soumaïla Cissé was even barred from the hall at one point we hear...
King Cotton Finance Minister Soumaïla Cissé has been at the heart of government since 1994 alongside Keïta Konaré and the Territorial Administration Minister Col...
Behind the process has been Mali’s Finance Minister Soumaïla Cissé in the job since 1993 and widely credited with saving his economy from complete ruin after more than two decades of pillage under dictator Moussa Traoré...
Finance Minister Soumaïla Cissé has cracked the whip over state enterprises including power provider Energie du Mali telecoms concern Sotelma (Société des Télécommunications du Mali) and the newly profitable cigarette maker Sonatam (Société Nationale des Tabacs et Allumettes du Mali)...
Conflicts persist in Adema between those (including Konaré and IBK) formerly in the old Parti Malien du Travail and the technocrats (including Finance Minister Soumaila Cissé) known as the ‘clan CMDT' because of a background in the successful statal Compagnie Malienne pour le Développement des Textiles to which IBK also has links...
