He has been a serial cabinet minister in the governments of President Amadou Toumani Touré (ATT) and Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta (IBK) and in 2018 stood for the presidency before managing to attach himself to the Mouvement du 5 juin – Rassemblement des forces patriotiques (M5-RFP) the mass movement which laid the groundwork for IBK's loss of office – despite his obvious establishment record...
His is one of several recent deaths among retired West African leaders linked – in starkly contrasting ways – to the region's bumpy democratic history: other departures have included the Malian dictator Moussa Traoré and the man who deposed him Amadou Toumani Touré and Mauritania's first democratic president Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi...
Like N'Daw Ouane is an experienced hand having served as foreign minister under ex-president Amadou Toumani Touré himself ousted in a coup in 2012...
He was there when Sanogo deposed President Amadou Toumani Touré in 2012...
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He was there when Sanogo deposed President Amadou Toumani Touré in 2012...
It is 11 years since the imam then the head of the High Islamic Council mobilised a crowd of 50 000 to force then-President Amadou Toumani Touré into watering down a family law reform...
One of their first steps was to fly to Dakar last month to seek the views of the exiled former head of state Amadou Toumani Touré (AC Vol 53 No 7 Rebels and putschists)...
Neither was tainted by the excesses of ex-president Amadou Toumani Touré's calamitous second term of office but most Malians see them as yesterday's men incapable of breathing new life into their democracy let alone master the near-civil war in the troubled north and centre of the country...
Government deputies' attitude to Mara contrasts with their vote not to seek a judicial enquiry into former head of state Amadou Toumani Touré's handling of northern issues during the lead-up to the jihadist takeover of the north in 2012 (AC Vol 53 No 15 The jihadists take over )...
The trial could mark a grim reckoning for Sanogo's Comité national pour le redressement de la démocratie et la restauration de l'Etat which took control on 22 March 2012 as President Amadou Toumani Touré (ATT) fled mutineers furious at government neglect of frontline troops in the north a large numbers of whom were massacred by jihadists (AC Vol 53 No 7 Rebels and putschists)...