Adama Ben Diarra (Ben le Cerveau)

Those figures have recently been joined behind bars by a member of an interim parliament Adama Ben Diarra who paid the price for saying it was time to end the military transition...

Despite largely supporting the regime the arrest of its charismatic leader Adama Ben Diarra aka ‘Ben le cerveau' (‘Ben the brain') shows a growing intolerance of independent political space...

Surprise greeted the sentencing to a year in prison in September of the charismatic Yerewolo leader Adama Ben Diarra aka 'Ben le cerveau' ('Ben the brain') for 'discrediting the state' and his dismissal from the Conseil national de transition (CNT the body supervising the return to civilian rule)...

Last month Adama Ben Diarra leader of the populist Yerewolo pro-regime movement was jailed for two years for 'attacking the reputation of the state' after declaring that Mali should stick to the 24 February 2024 election date...