The junta in Bamako may have been hoping for a boost with reports on 5 July that a court in the capital had issued an international warrant for the arrest of Karim Keïta eldest son of former president Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta ousted in a coup last August (AC Vol 61 No 17 The junta haggles on transition)...

He has been a serial cabinet minister in the governments of President Amadou Toumani Touré (ATT) and Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta (IBK) and in 2018 stood for the presidency before managing to attach himself to the Mouvement du 5 juin – Rassemblement des forces patriotiques (M5-RFP) the mass movement which laid the groundwork for IBK's loss of office – despite his obvious establishment record...

The only exception was the Mouvement du 5 Juin-Rassemblement des Forces Patriotiques which continues to sulk for having been never properly compensated for it believes overthrowing former president Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta preferably with ministerial posts...

Members of the Conseil National de Transition were set to be among the demonstrators to the irritation of the CNT's president Colonel Malick Diaw deputy leader of the junta that overthrew former president Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta (AC Vol 61 No 17 No road back for Keïta)...

Prime Minister Moctar Ouane has set out his plans to develop talks with some jihadist faction leaders following up on the initial overtures that President Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta – deposed by army putschists in August – had already made towards Iyad ag Ghaly and Amadou Koufa of the Jama'at Nusrat al Islam wal Muslimin alliance (AC Vol 61 No 20 Colonels concede – but not much)...

The CNSP scored an early victory when Ecowas dropped its demand to have the ousted president Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta (IBK) returned to power post-haste...

Meanwhile fresh reports have been emerging about the whereabouts of Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta's son Karim Keïta first assumed to be in military custody...

It's been a week of hard bargaining in Bamako and over the West African airwaves as the putschists who turfed Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta out of the presidency negotiate with the Economic Community of West African States (Ecowas) over the shape of a transition to take the country through to fresh democratic elections...

Who's who in the colonels' coup Five colonels run the Comité National pour le Salut du Peuple (CNSP) the junta that seized power from President Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta's beleaguered government on 18 August...

The pro forma condemnation by West African leaders of the overthrow of the hapless President Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta on 18 August – not to mention the strong popular support for the new military junta – is a poor omen for their efforts to reverse the coup...

Five colonels run the Comité National pour le Salut du Peuple (CNSP) the junta that seized power from President Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta's beleaguered government on 18 August...

Not at the press conference at the Kati barracks but believed to have played a role in what the putschists call the 'resignation' of President Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta are three further influential figures: Colonel Mama Sékou Lelenta about whom little is known; General Cheick Fanta Mady Dembélé; and Lieutenant-General Ibrahim Traoré...

The 27 July online summit of West African leaders has given full emphatic backing to President Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta (IBK) in his confrontation with the opposition and threatened sanctions on anyone who tries to remove him...