And leading opposition candidate Choguel Maïga of the Mouvement Patriotique pour le Renouveau will take full advantage: he is a past master at exploiting Adema strife...
Choguel Maïga leads the Mouvement Patriotique pour le Renouveau the strongest of the opposition parties which have boycotted the electoral process since the fiasco of the April 1997 legislative polls (AC Vol 39 No 1)...
If acquitted she could have concentrated on reviving the Traorés’ once worldwide network of contacts in favour of the only opposition party that Adema strategists still take seriously: Choguel Maïga’s Mouvement Patriotique pour le Renouveau...
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...