SBM was head of the intelligence service in the 1990s under Mali's first democratic President Alpha Oumar Konaré and later Foreign Minister under his successor Amadou Toumani Touré...
One dates the problems back to former French President Nicolas Sarkozy who opened up discussion about an Azawad autonomous region before the overthrow of President Amadou Toumani Touré in 2012 (AC Vol 53 No 7 Rebels and putschists)...
Such is the disillusionment with a man elected with a landslide 78% of the vote only nine months ago that some Malians have half-seriously proposed that the deeply unpopular former President Amadou Toumani Touré return (AC Vol 54 No 17 IBK's agenda)...
Relations with Mali which were poor when President Amadou Toumani Touré ruled have markedly improved...
As a result some are starting to warn of a possible return to the corrupting consensus approach of ex-President Amadou Toumani Touré who coopted amenable politicians with lavish patronage...
His recent visit to Mauritania produced an agreement with a government that was bitterly critical of ex-President Amadou Toumani Touré's failure to police and defend Mali's frontiers...
Individuals close to former President Amadou Toumani Touré are even accused of close personal ties to South American cocaine traffickers...
His plans to lead an active opposition seem to signal that he will refuse offers of co-option and patronage the customary procedure under President Amadou Toumani Touré...
If Cissé was a less dominant figure that helped him to forge links with other major contenders such as Sidibé Prime Minister under former President Amadou Toumani Touré (ATT); Dembélé the candidate of Mali's largest party the Alliance pour la démocratie au Mali (Adema); and Bittar the only Arab candidate...
Intense speculation surrounds the intentions of Soumeylou Boubèye Maïga Foreign Minister during the last year of the presidency of Amadou Toumani Touré (ATT) in 2012 (AC Vol 48 No 9 ATT seeks takokélén and Politicians and their parties)...