Rain of tribute for the soldier and the democrat,

Malians learned with great sorrow of the death of Amadou Toumani Touré.

Several political leaders, friends and acquaintances testified to the love and constant commitment of the children's friend to the cause of the motherland.

Affectionately known as 'ATT', the man passed away for good at the age of 72.

Its various development projects will remain forever etched in the collective memory

Farewell, man of peace!

The child of Soudou Baba, the soldier of the Malian democracy, the Hogon, the great builder, the man of peace… ATT is gone forever.

Malians will no longer hear his teases and jokes.

The one who embodied peace, living together in Mali has died out.

The cousin to everyone, the children's friend is gone.

He rejoined his ancestors after having spent his entire life in the service of development and peace in Mali and elsewhere.

 For the majority of Malians, ATT will remain one of the best presidents Mali has ever known,"

Malikilé.

Under his presidency, many road works have seen the light of day, particularly in the capital Bamako.

During the 10 years of its power, Mali knew a dead calm in the political field where no opposition was known to it.

His popularity was manifested in December 2017 on his return from exile in Dakar.

It was a huge crowd of great days who had come out to show him their sympathy and gratitude.

The Dakar exile was a hard test for this man who deeply loved his country and his people.

Malikilé

to be sure to re-emerge for a second term, ATT let it go and abandoned Mali in the hands of the most ruthless predators of its history.

It was even a blank check that he granted them when he declared, on ORTM, the Malian national television, that he would not humiliate any head of family who had embezzled public money by putting him in prison. 

Malikilé

ATT abandoned the Malian army in complete decrepitude, an army of sons of leaders who will flee like rabbits frightened by the advance of the jihadists.

This fault, ATT will pay it in cash on March 22, 2012, when soldiers almost killed him following a coup d'état when he only had, in principle, only two months left before the presidential elections of May 2012 . 

perfection is not of this human world, ATT is far from being without flaws.

But it is he who, after sweeping the house, allowed Mali to experience its first real democratic election and then its first democratic alternation, in 2002. 

Canard Enchaîné

Canard in particular

proclaiming oneself elected out of hand, when we know very well that entire regions have not had access at the polling stations, we did not expect it. 

Canard

At 78, by stifling the opposition and bypassing the constitution, Alassane Ouattara managed to hold on for a third term.

Le Canard

the scenario of a third term, not provided for by the Constitution, did not delight him.

'Macron is all the more embarrassed about the workings, confides a specialist in the case interviewed by the weekly, that the French base in Abidjan is of capital importance for the logistics of Operation Barkhane in the Sahel.

Macron is tied up '.