MaliMali’s president appoints loyalists to cabinet ahead of 2018 elections

Published 17 April 2017

Mali’s President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita announced a new government last week, with most positions stocked with loyalists to help him prepare for a re-election bid next year. The government, announced in a presidential decree, includes ten new ministers and twenty-five holdovers from the previous cabinet. Tieman Hubert Coulibaly, a former defense minister and close Keita ally, was handed the key post of minister of territorial administration, charged with organizing presidential and parliamentary elections late next year.

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