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Mali
Closed door negotiations under way to decide IBK's fate

Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta still smiling during the latest G5 Sahel summit in Nouachott, 30 June. © Ludovic Marin /Pool via REUTERS

After being forced to resign by part of the army on 18 August, the former Malian president could be allowed to go to the United Arab Emirates, where he has been receiving medical care for months. Yet his future is currently the object of intense negotiations with the officers who carried out the putsch. [...]

Published on 20/08/2020 at 05:40 GMT Reading time 3 minutes

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Amadou Haya Sanogo
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General Yamoussa Camara, the Mali junta's éminence grise

Yamoussa Camara has in less than a year become one of the most influential figures in Mali's Koulouba presidential palace. Junta leader Assimi Goïta made him his permanent secretary last year, and he advises the five putschist colonels he had under his command at a military high school in the 1990s.

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Yamoussa Camara, then secretary of defence, stands with François Lecointre, commander of the European Union Training Mission in Mali (EUTM Mali) on 18 March 2013.

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Hush-hush diplomacy between Lomé and Bamako shores up junta

Though the visit to Lomé by the president of the transition Bah N'Daw on 13 November was the first by a top Malian official to the country, very close contacts have been nurtured behind the scenes between the leaders of the putsch and Faure Gnassingbé ever since the coup d'état on 18 August.

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The meeting with Faure Gnassingbé (left) on 13 November in Lomé was a key stage in Bah N'Daw's regional tour.

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How regime insiders Karim Keïta and Moussa Diawara slipped through the putschists' net

Despite being Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta's leading collaborators, former intelligence chief Moussa Diawara and the deposed head of state's oldest son, Karim Keïta, have been able to slip quietly into exile. Africa Intelligence reveals their activities before and after IBK's fall from power and detail the ambiguous roles they played in the weeks leading up to the coup.

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