Amadou Toumani Touré (ATT)

Many politicians in Bamako believe that France’s former President Nicolas Sarkozy was financing the MNLA as a means to pressure the failing government of President Amadou Toumani Touré...

During the final years of the presidency of Amadou Toumani Touré – who was deposed in a military coup in March 2012 – the country was suspended from both the Global Fund Against AIDS Tuberculosis and Malaria and the GAVI Alliance programme of support for vaccinations because of the theft of money from the programmes...

Payment for reserves of that size would have been substantial and it seems strange that President Amadou Toumani Touré did not trumpet it at the time in 2008 when Sahara applied for permits...

In recent years little of the defence budget reached the troops on the ground as much was diverted by the corrupt clique of senior officers – one of the primary reasons for the March putsch against President Amadou Toumani Touré (ATT)...

SADI says it wants to bring deposed President Amadou Toumani Touré to trial: that is unlikely to come to anything but it finds favour with Malians embittered by what they perceive as the international community’s coddling of an incompetent corrupt government...

Meanwhile the exiled ex-President Amadou Toumani Touré has visited Paris where he may have paid a discreet visit to Traoré...

The arson attack followed an uprising by the paratroop Presidential Guard of ousted President Amadou Toumani Touré on 30 April-1 May...

Although ousted President Amadou Toumani Touré’s credentials as the father of Malian democracy impressed foreigners his government was mired in corruption...

This then snowballed into a more general revolt against President Amadou Toumani Touré...

Ghali once a key advisor to President Amadou Toumani Touré fell under the spell of Islamist radicals while a diplomat in Saudi Arabia and has now founded a Salafist group of fighters of his own...