This follows the insurgents blockading Kayes Mali's western gateway and Nioro du Sahel on the border with Mauritania the base of the Chérif of Nioro Bouyé Haïdara an influential Sufi leader in Mali and much of Mauritania...
There are fears that not even Mali's three most influential religious leaders may be able to stop the tide be it the widely respected and normally reserved Cheik Chérif Ousmane Haidara who released a pessimistic video in December; the firebrand imam Mahmoud Dicko; or the discreet and wealthy businessman and political broker Mohamed Ould Hamahoulah who also goes by Bouyé Haïdara but is universally known as Chérif de Nioro (AC Vol 62 No 14 Paris makes up with the junta)...
There are fears that not even Mali's three most influential religious leaders may be able to stop the tide be it the widely respected and normally reserved Cheik Chérif Ousmane Haidara who released a pessimistic video in December; the firebrand imam Mahmoud Dicko; or the discreet and wealthy businessman and political broker Mohamed Ould Hamahoulah who also goes by Bouyé Haïdara but is universally known as Chérif de Nioro (AC Vol 62 No 14 Paris makes up with the junta)...
Neither must he fail to listen to discreet messages from a small town on the border with Mauritania Nioro du Sahel home to the highly influential imam and wealthy businessman Mohamed Ould Bouyé Haidara aka the Chérif de Nioro...
Vol 61 No 16 |
- MALI
- ECOWAS
New Finance Minister Abdoulaye Daffé is close to the Chérif of Nioro Mohamed Ould Bouyé Haïdara the Sufi leader who backed the main opposition candidate Soumaïla Cissé in the 2018 election (AC Vol 59 No 16 Court in the act)...
Although he pursues a more purist expression of the faith he maintains good relations with the Chérif of Nioro Mohamed Ould Bouyé Haïdara probably the most influential figure in traditional Malian Sufi Islam...
Diarra has earned the endorsement of Mali's most influential religious leader the Chérif of Nioro Bouyé Haïdara another disappointed former IBK supporter...