When his predecessor as Prime Minister Oumar Tatam Ly tried to go there protestors swarmed on to the airstrip and Ly left without landing while government troops opened fire and killed at least one unarmed woman...
The government's resignation on 5 April reflected deep differences over economic reforms between President Keïta and the departing Prime Minister and leading economist Oumar Tatam Ly...
He will draw lessons from the problems of his predecessor Oumar Tatam Ly a central banker who couldn't work with Keïta and was unable to build a wider political base...
However his Prime Minister Oumar Tatam Ly a former banker is seen as a technocratic pragmatist outside the deeply compromised political class...
But the pressure will now be on Keïta's new ministerial team – led by technocratic banker Prime Minister Oumar Tatam Ly – to start producing visibly better services and reinvigorate the development effort...
