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Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta (IBK)

Date of Birth: 29 January 1945
Place of Birth: Koutiala, Mali
Died: 16 January 2022


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The Presidents' club backs Keïta

The 27 July online summit of West African leaders has given full emphatic backing to President Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta (IBK) in his confrontation with the opposition and threatened sanctions on anyone who tries to remove him...


    Vol 61 No 14 |
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Keïta clings on

News that on 5 July the beleaguered head of state President Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta (IBK) had held talks with Mahmoud Dicko the conservative imam whose mass mobilising appeal has given real clout to protests of recent weeks fuelled speculation that a settlement might be imminent...


Crisis summit as insurgents head south

France's President Emmanuel Macron and Spain's Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez each made their first post-lockdown foreign trips to the summit along with African Union Chairman Moussa Faki Mahamat to join regional presidents: Burkina Faso's Roch Marc Christian Kaboré; Chad's Idris Déby Itno; Mali's Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta; Niger's Mahamadou Issoufou; Mauritania's Ghazouani...


    Vol 61 No 12 |
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Keïta cornered

Nearly a week after the charismatic conservative imam Mahmoud Dicko led tens of thousands of demonstrators onto the streets of Bamako demanding President Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta's resignation the head of state remains under heavy pressure...


Voters self-isolate

In spite of accusations of fraud and unfairness President Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta claims he had to go ahead with the polls because they had been delayed for over a year...


    Vol 61 No 4 |
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Terrorists at the table

President Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta says his envoy Dioncounda Traoré had his full authority to initiate talks with jihadist chiefs Iyad ag Ghaly and Amadou Koufa – after years of government insistence there would be no negotiation with terrorists (AC Vol 61 No 1 Advantage jihadists)...


    Vol 61 No 3 |
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Putschist walks free

Releasing Sanogo also makes political sense for President Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta's ruling coalition as it steers him away from confrontation with southern-based populists and radicals like Oumar Mariko who see Sanogo as a hero in the 29 March parliamentary election...


Sahel summit's fighting talk

With the focus of the French military presence shifting to the three frontiers zone and away from this Saharan heartland of Tuareg separatism President Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta and the Malian political class may be compelled to implement more seriously the decentralisation and development dimensions of the 2015 Algiers peace agreement for the north – a point to which Burkina's Kaboré obliquely referred in the press conference in Pau (AC Vol 60 No 19 The talking cure)...


    Vol 61 No 1 |
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Advantage jihadists

For President Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta the new year brings renewed diplomatic pressure – and not just from an international community exasperated by the lack of progress in implementing the 2015 Algiers peace deal...


In search of allies

The assembled heads of state – Mahamadou Issoufou of Niger Roch Marc Christian Kaboré of Burkina Faso (currently the G5 Executive President) Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta of Mali Idriss Déby Itno of Chad and Mohamed Cheikh el Ghazouani of Mauritania pleaded for more allies in the fight against terrorism...


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