Amadou Toumani Touré (ATT)

Born in Mopti Amadou Toumani Touré (ATT 52) is backed by over 30 parties and myriad civil society organisations along with the nebulous 'apolitical' Mouvement Citoyen (Citizen's Movement) whose main activity is to support ATT...

Libya's Colonel Moammar el Gadaffi excused his absence through Mali's President Amadou Toumani Touré who was effulgent towards Chirac while - in a conference workshop - Somalia's Prime Minister Ali Mohamed Gedi raised some eyebrows by speaking of his country as in a 'post-conflict situation'...

At the election on 29 April Mali's President Amadou Toumani Touré (ATT) is likely to win a second five-year term against veteran oppositionist Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta (IBK) Speaker of the National Assembly and leader of the Rassemblement pour le Mali (RPM)...

Bamako is worried about security and awaiting a cabinet reshuffle by President Amadou Toumani Touré (ATT)...

Three men contested (AC Vol 44 No 8): Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta ('IBK') Soumaïla Cissé and the eventual winner General Amadou Toumani Touré ('ATT')...

Regional leaders including African Union Chairman Olusegun Obasanjo of Nigeria Amadou Toumani Touré of Mali and the Chairman of the Economic Community of West African States (Ecowas) Niger's Mamadou Tandja swiftly condemned the constitutional coup attempted in the name of Faure Gnassingbé the old dictator's son; Ghana kept quiet...

When Bozizé's forces marched into Bangui in March 2003 Paris tried to persuade the general to emulate Mali's Amadou Toumani Touré who overthrew Moussa Traoré in 1991 then stood aside to let civilians contest an election...

A 9 February summit decided to send a heavyweight mission of five Presidents - new ECOWAS leader President Mamadou Tandja of Niger Olusegun Obasanjo (Nigeria) Amadou Toumani Touré (Mali) John Agyekum Kufuor (Ghana) and Mathieu Kérékou (Benin)...

President Amadou Toumani Touré is better liked abroad than at home and the Ivorian crisis continues to weigh heavily on the cost of imports and exports...

Also important in regional diplomacy and better liked is Mali's President Amadou Toumani Touré who has improved relations with France which may revive its proposals for reforming rich-country cotton subsidies...