Choguel Maïga aged 43 leads the Mouvement Patriotique pour le Renouveau directly descended from ex-dictator Moussa Traoré's single party of the 1970s- 1980s...
After a plain-clothes police officer was lynched at an opposition rally on 9 August several opposition leaders were arrested including Almamy Sylla of the Rassemblement pour la Démocratie et le Progrès (RDP) Choguel Maïga of the Mouvement Patriotique pour le Renouveau (MPR) and Mountaga Tall of the Congrès National d'Initiative Démocratique (CNID)...
In the north the Mouvement Patriotique pour le Renouveau (MPR the revived version of Traoré's single party – the Union Démocratique du Peuple Malien has Choguel Maïga a high-profile Songhay northern dignitary as its public figurehead and presidential candidate...
