Amadou Toumani Touré
Amadou Toumani Touré [ amaˈdu tumaˈni tuˈʀe ], or ATT for short (born November 4, 1948 in Mopti ) was the President of Mali from May 2002 to March 2012 .
soldier
After attending school in his hometown Mopti, he went to Bamako to train as a teacher. He then joined the army and attended the École interarmes in Kati from 1969 to 1972 . He was trained as a paratrooper and attended courses in Ryazan ( Soviet Union ) in 1974/1975 and in France in 1978 and 1989/1990 . In 1981 he became commander of the Presidential Guard, and in 1984 the paratrooper.
Interim President
After unrest, which had initially been suppressed with violence, Lieutenant Colonel Touré took part in the overthrow of President Moussa Traoré on March 26, 1991 (see coup in Mali 1991 ). As chairman of the Comité de Transition pour le Salut de Peuple formed by the putschists , he became the new head of state. He called a constitutional conference and organized elections. The conflict with the Tuareg was ended by a ceasefire in December. In May 1992 he handed power to a civilian government under Alpha Oumar Konaré . For the introduction of democracy in Mali he was called soldat de la démocratie .
From then on he devoted himself to charitable projects and founded the Fondation pour l'Enfance for children in 1993 . He has also worked for Former President Jimmy Carter's Foundation and the World Health Organization . On September 26, 1996 in New York he was awarded the Africa Prize by the non-governmental organization The Hunger Project for his work . The Secretary General of the United Nations , Kofi Annan , sent him as a special envoy to the Central African Republic in June 2001 to mediate there after a failed coup attempt.
president
In October 2001 he resigned as brigadier general from the army of Mali and ran for the presidential election in May 2002. In the second ballot he was able to prevail against the former Minister Soumaïla Cissé with 64.35 percent of the vote. On April 29, 2007, he was re-elected for a further term. Touré is non-party.
On March 21, 2012, Touré was overthrown by a military coup one month before the regular end of his term in office . The spokesman for the coup plotters, Amadou Konaré , said on state television that the president was unable to lead the government and control the Tuareg uprising in the north of the country , which had been going on since mid-January 2012 . At the same time, the putschists suspended the constitution, canceled the presidential election scheduled for April 29 and declared all previous state institutions to be dissolved. Touré apparently managed to escape; he is said to have stayed in a military camp under the protection of loyal soldiers. On April 9, he officially announced his resignation.
family
Touré is married and has two daughters.
Individual evidence
- ^ Federal Foreign Office - Mali , accessed on April 9, 2012.
- ^ Thomas Scheen, Johannesburg: Military coup against President Touré. In: faz.net. March 22, 2012, accessed December 11, 2014 .
- ↑ AFP, dpa and Reuters: Government overthrow: Putschists take power in Mali. In: zeit.de. March 22, 2012, accessed December 11, 2014 .
- ↑ Disempowered President Touré resigns. In: faz.net. April 9, 2012, accessed December 11, 2014 .
literature
- Amadou T. Touré , in: Internationales Biographisches Archiv 28/2012 of July 10, 2012, in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely available)
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Touré, Amadou Toumani |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | ATT |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Malian politician; President of Mali (2002–2012) |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 4, 1948 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Mopti |