But there are public figures who are proving more compliant such as former prime minister Moussa Mara who has called on his compatriots to unite in helping the transition regime...
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Vol 62 No 4 |
- FRANCE
- SAHEL
- G5
Malian former Prime Minister Moussa Mara says the Sahel states should take full responsibility for the main frontline effort after 2022 backed by French Special Forces intelligence and aerial surveillance...
Moussa Mara leader of the centrist Yelema opposition party has warned of reports of a catastrophic situation in the cotton sector a critical source of income for hundreds of thousands of households (AC Vol 59 No 1 Wanted: change and security)...
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Diarra's passion for education appeals to the young as will the support of another former Prime Minister Moussa Mara who decided to go to Kidal in May 2014 to demonstrate the state's complete sovereignty over its territory...
On the opposition side former Prime Minister Moussa Mara and the official opposition leader Soumaïla Cissé have taken to touring the country in an effort to show they understand that Mali is more than just its capital...
A second round is therefore a virtual certainty probably pitting Keïta against either Soumaïla Cissé or Moussa Mara...
Moussa Mara is the youthful former Prime Minister who made history when he made his ill-fated trip to the northern town of Kidal which remains in armed opposition hands (AC Vol 55 No 11 IBK ducks the blame for Kidal)...
The Bamako media buzzes with speculation about a potential presidential challenge from onetime IBK protégé and premier Moussa Mara – perhaps with a bid for mayor of the Bamako metro-conurbation as a career way-station and helped by the cultivation of influential religious figures...
SBM took responsibility for the disastrous loss of the Saharan town of Kidal to Tuareg separatists in May 2014 and resigned as Defence Minister though many lay the blame on the President IBK and the then Prime Minister Moussa Mara (AC Vol 55 No 11 IBK ducks the blame for Kidal & Vol 55 No 12 Ripples from Kidal)...
Moussa Mara Prime Minister for nine months until January 2015 is pressing for the regional polls to go ahead...
President Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta is failing to take a strong political lead or resist the clannish family and vested interests that convinced him to dismiss his already weakened modernising Prime Minister Moussa Mara in January...