Politicians outside the government led by former presidential candidate Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta (IBK) are pushing urgently for a national conference to map out the transition...
Candidates in the April-May presidential election have turned their campaigns down to a simmer so as to focus on tackling a conflict which – as one of the favourites Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta recognises – has the potential to shred the broad consensus and spirit of compromise which has underpinned Malian democracy...
A former Prime Minister and one-time Adema heavyweight Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta is a more formidable candidate...
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...
Opposition politician and former Prime Minister Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta ('IBK') has failed to unite the many opposition parties which back seven different presidential candidates...
Toughest amongst ATT's opponents is the National Assembly President 62-year-old Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta (IBK) from Koutiala...
Vol 48 No 1 |
- WEST AFRICA
At the election on 29 April Mali's President Amadou Toumani Touré (ATT) is likely to win a second five-year term against veteran oppositionist Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta (IBK) Speaker of the National Assembly and leader of the Rassemblement pour le Mali (RPM)...
Three men contested (AC Vol 44 No 8): Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta ('IBK') Soumaïla Cissé and the eventual winner General Amadou Toumani Touré ('ATT')...
The objectors are younger deputies of the Congrès National d'Initiative Démocratique (CNID) elected for the first time in 2002 and the Rassemblement pour le Mali (RPM) with 45 MPs under veteran Konaré Prime Minister Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta...
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...
