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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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EU ups security demands

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...


    Vol 56 No 20 |
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IBK ploughs into trouble

President Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta is in the midst of another big public spending row after making a supposedly personal gift of 1 000 tractors to rural communities just in time for the next farming season...


    Vol 56 No 13 |
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A peace deal, against all odds

Three days after presiding on 20 June over the signing in Bamako of a peace agreement between northern rebels and President Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta Mongi Hamdi was in New York trying to drum up support at the United Nations Security Council to prolong the peacekeepers' presence...

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    Vol 56 No 12 |
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Desert war, Bamako rumbles

Missed callScepticism about President Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta (IBK) is something northerners and southerners share...


    Vol 56 No 1 |
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IBK on the back foot

While the north dominates the news Mara faces ample pressure on other fronts not least recurrent rumours that President Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta might soon drop him...


    Vol 55 No 21 |
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Crisis returns as talks falter

The government's position has been further hampered by the failure of President Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta to provide visionary political leadership and set out in accessible popular terms a picture of what a rebuilt Mali including the north could look like...


    Vol 55 No 19 |
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MINUSMA minus one

And Koenders' relations with President Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta have been dire...


    Vol 55 No 12 |
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Ripples from Kidal

N'Dao replaces Soumeylou Boubèye Maïga who was sacrificed to deflect blame for the disaster from President Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta and Prime Minister Moussa Mara many in Bamako believe...


    Vol 55 No 11 |
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IBK ducks the blame for Kidal

The international community has been shocked by what it sees as the incompetence of President Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta (IBK) and has lost practically all confidence in him...


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