Col Goïta and Foreign Minister Abdoulaye Diop have avoided Choguel Maïga-style rhetoric while defending their regime's sovereign right to work with the international forces of its choosing...
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The decision by junta leader Colonel Assimi Göita and Foreign Minister Abdoulaye Diop to deploy fighters from the Wagner Group also threatens Opération Barkhane the French–led anti-jihadist mission in the Sahel region and its planned successor the multinational force Operation Takuba including troops from several European countries...
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' It was Col Göita's and Foreign Minister Abdoulaye Diop's agreement to deploy fighters from Russia's Wagner Group which has close ties to the Kremlin that has triggered the fall-out with France and the US (AC Vol 62 No 23 Bamako and Moscow defy Paris & Vol 63 No 2 Moscow guns for African gold)...
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On 1 January Malian foreign minister Abdoulaye Diop told Ghanaian President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo – chairing the Economic Community of West African States (Ecowas) – that the military may have to rule for a further five years...
The Moscow trip on 12 November by Foreign Minister Abdoulaye Diop (AC Vol 62 No 23 Bamako and Moscow defy Paris) for talks with Russian counterpart Sergeï Lavrov further fuelled European mistrust...
The visit by Mali's Foreign Minister Abdoulaye Diop to Moscow on 11 November flies in the face of French government complaints about Russia's state-backed mercenaries and their allied businesses in Africa...
Malian Foreign Minister Abdoulaye Diop offered a thinly-veiled critique of the Italian-led missions at a pre-summit meeting with members of the European parliament on 22 November...
The contract led to a clash between Karim – who pushed the project – and Economy and Finance Minister Abdoulaye Diop who refused to sign it off...
Vol 2 (AAC) No 10 |
- SENEGAL
' The contract for Faye's deal was signed by both Minister of Finance Abdoulaye Diop and Urbanism Minister Assane Diagne...
Vol 48 No 11 |
- AFRICA
- ASIA
Significantly Liu's fellow panellists South African Finance Minister Trevor Manuel and his counterpart from Senegal Abdoulaye Diop stoutly defended China Exim's operations...