Alpha Oumar Konaré

Oppositionists say Compaoré has staged a tactical retreat telling the CDP's regional barons not to campaign too hard in opposition strongholds while attempting to rise above politics like his recently retired Malian counterpart Alpha Oumar Konaré...

In 1992 thanks largely to Touré's decision not to challenge him Alpha Oumar Konaré (AOK) emerged as President and served two five-year terms backed by the Alliance pour la Démocratie au Mali (Adema)...

Cissé a former finance minister has done well despite rifts in Adema that meant he didn't get unqualified support from outgoing President Alpha Oumar Konaré...

Bush had already met Ghana's John Kufuor Senegal's Abdoulaye Wade and Mali's Alpha Oumar Konaré and was due to endorse reform at a lunch with leaders of other developing world democracies during the United Nations General Assembly at which the Presidents of Benin Botswana and Madagascar were to form the African contingent...

His main opponent will be ex-Premier Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta (IBK) who fell out with incumbent President Alpha Oumar Konaré (AOK) last year...

Despite all the quarrelling within both ruling party and opposition ATT might even end up as President Alpha Oumar Konaré's preferred candidate...

Banya failed to win the argument for sanctions against Liberia in the Economic Community of West African States: at first Guinean President Lansana Conteh's and Kabbah's governments were totally outmanoeuvred by Liberian President Charles Taylor and Burkina Faso's Blaise Compaoré and their ally Malian President Alpha Oumar Konaré current chairman of ECOWAS...

Underlying the scheduled theme 'L'Afrique - l'heure de la mondialisation' (Africa at the time of globalisation) are renewed doubts about the short-term future of the Franc Zone held by regional economists and leaders such as Malian President Alpha Oumar Konaré...

Also apparently against the West African grain President Mamadou Tandja's government in Niger and President Alpha Oumar Konaré's in Mali are held up as effective reform-minded governments...

President Alpha Oumar Konaré ('AOK') wants a successful outcome hoping to go down as a statesman on the lines of Tanzania's late President Julius Nyerere...