October 02, 2003
Mali: 'Japan Should Have a Security Council Seat,' Says President Toure
More than twenty African leaders gathered this week in the Japanese capital, Tokyo, for the third conference in ten years on development cooperation and partnership between Japan… Read more »
July 11, 2003
Africa: Alpha Oumar Konare Elected New Chairperson of AU Commission
Alpha Oumar Konare, 57, the former president of Mali, has been elected the new chairperson of the African Union Commission. Read more »
June 25, 2003
Mali: Development is Being Destroyed By Subsidies, Mali President Tells Congressional Committee
U.S. and European subsidies and tariffs "support injustice," Mali President Amadou Toumani Toure told the House International Relations Subcommitteee on Africa, Tuesday,… Read more »
June 08, 2002
Mali: New President Takes Office
Amadou Toumani Toure has been sworn in as the new president of Mali, during a ceremony in the capital Bamako Saturday attended by 11 other francophone African leaders. Making… Read more »
June 07, 2002
Mali: History Made as One Elected President Hands Over to Another
Mali is set to make history Saturday as one democratically elected president hands over power to another duly-elected leader for the first time in the country's history since… Read more »
May 09, 2002
Mali: Constitutional Court Cancels 0.5m Votes But Confirms Poll Result
Mali's Constitutional Court says over half a million votes cast in Mali's presidential election 11 days ago must be cancelled due to irregularities but that the results of the… Read more »
May 06, 2002
Mali: 'I Am Sure I Am the Winner of the First Round'
Ibrahim Boubacar Keita, a former prime minister of Mali, came third in Mali's presidential poll, according to official, albeit provisional, results of the presidential election of… Read more »
Mali: Opposition Candidates Demand that Court Annuls Poll Results
"This presidential election must mend fences." Those were the words last week of the minister responsible for coordinating Malis presidential poll, who told journalists that… Read more »
May 03, 2002
Mali: 'ATT' Wins Round One in Presidential Poll, Run-off May 12
The Ministry of Territorial Administration in Mali has announced the results of the first round of the presidential elections giving victory in first place to the former military… Read more »
May 02, 2002
Mali: Presidential Candidate IBK Alleges Election Fraud
Ibrahim Boubacar Keita, the presidential candidate currently trailing in third position after 70 percent of the results are tallied, has cried foul and claimed vote rigging in… Read more »
Mali: 'ATT' Still Ahead, 'IBK' Steps Up Fraud Allegations
Retired military general Amadou Toumani Toure, maintained his lead, late Wednesday, after the release of the latest provisional results from the presidential election. Read more »
May 01, 2002
Mali: Retired General Takes Early Lead in Presidential Election
Partial and provisional results from Mali's presidential election, after a quarter of the constituencies have been counted, put a retired military general in the lead, as a slow… Read more »
April 30, 2002
Mali: Political Parties Denounce Vote Counting Flaws
The already slow counting of votes after Sunday's first round presidential election in Mali was hit by a further obstacle late Tuesday, when the Rally for Mali party (RPM), which… Read more »
April 29, 2002
Mali: No Clear Leader as Election Results Trickle In
The initial counting of votes from the first round of Mali's presidential election started at dusk on Sunday, bathed in flickering candlelight, assisted by the glow of paraffin… Read more »
April 28, 2002
Mali: Vote Count Begins After Calm Day at the Polls
Vote counting after Sundays presidential election in Mali began almost as soon as polling stations closed their doors at 18h00 local (and GMT) in the capital, Bamako. Read more »
Mali: Outgoing President Hails Democratic Vote
As Malians turned out to vote for a new president in a relaxed Sunday atmosphere, their outgoing leader, Alpha Oumar Konare, expressed his "great satisfaction" with the democratic… Read more »
April 27, 2002
Mali: All Set for Presidential Vote on Sunday
As they prepare to go to the polls on Sunday, the people of Mali have to choose a new president who could be a former military head of state, a wealthy former government minister,… Read more »
Mali: 'You Cant Campaign by Camel Any More' Says Candidate
Soumaila Cisse is one of 24 candidates¨hoping to become the next president of Mali in the elections on Sunday. The 53 year-old computer science engineer-turned politician and… Read more »
Mali: Presidential Election Campaign Ends in Festive Carnival Atmosphere
Last minute campaigning, before Sundays presidential election in Mali, took on a distinctly carnival atmosphere on Friday. Tens of thousands of supporters, of some of the 24… Read more »
April 25, 2002
Mali: Last Day of Campaigning Before Sunday's Presidential Poll
Twenty-four candidates are set to contest the presidential election in Mali on Sunday, 28 April. Their campaign posters, with enticing slogans and captions, are plastered all over… Read more »
January 07, 2002
Africa: African Cup of Nations Final Group Rounds
The African Cup of Nations (ACONS), Mali 2002, runs from January 19 to February 10. Below is the schedule for the final group rounds. Read more »
June 28, 2001
Mali: Africa Offers Opportunity, Says Mali President
"Is it possible for the U.S. to look at itself in the mirror without seeing Africa? I don't think so!" said Alpha Omar Konare, president of the Republic of Mali Thursday,… Read more »
May 29, 2001
Africa: AllAfrica Exclusive: Powell Promises US Support but Says Africa Must Help Itself
The American Secretary of State, Colin Powell, ended a four-nation African tour on Monday, which took him from Mali to South Africa and onto Kenya, with a last stop in Uganda. … Read more »
May 26, 2001
Kenya: US Secretary of State Delivers Tough Message to President Moi
The American Secretary of State, Colin Powell, arrived in Kenya on Saturday on the third leg of his four-nation tour around Africa. He immediately went into a working session with… Read more »
February 27, 2001
Africa: Fespaco Gears Up With Two Movie Hits
The 17th pan-African film and television festival, which opened in the Burkinabe capital Ouagadougou on Saturday, came into its own on Monday night. The festival was in full… Read more »