Mali: justice investigates a telephone conversation between Alassane Ouattara and Boubou Cissé

The former Prime Minister of IBK Boubou Cissé had already been accused by the Malian courts of "conspiracy against the government and undermining state security".

(Illustrative image) MICHELE CATTANI / AFP

Text by: David Baché

2 mins

It is believed to hear Alassane Ouattara and Boubou Cissé make unflattering remarks about the leaders of the Malian transition.

The recording of a telephone discussion between the Ivorian president and the former Malian prime minister has been circulating on social networks, since Friday it has been the subject of a preliminary investigation by the Malian courts, for "attacking or attempting to and complicity in the internal and external security of Mali".

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The prosecutor of the court of Commune IV of Bamako confirms that it is on this recording, which lasts nearly five minutes, that the investigation which has just been opened is based.

We believe we hear Boubou Cissé “

” Alassane Ouattara on the impact of ECOWAS sanctions on the Malian economy and on public finances.

The two men discuss in unflattering terms the ability of the transitional leaders to hold on, or even their expectations of help from Russia, deemed to be naive to say the least.

The respective weight of the leaders of the transition, in particular the Prime Minister or the Minister of Defense, is also on the menu of the exchange.

The authenticity of the recording is "

" by the Malian courts.

The voices of Alassane Ouattara and Boubou Cissé seem very recognizable, but they may be imitations or even an edit.

In any case, is it a question, for those who broadcast this recording, of discrediting the former head of the Malian government by making him pass for a traitor to the fatherland, as some think?

Or on the contrary to give him a stature of presidential, by staging his relations and his influence, as others claim?

On social networks, this recording is already presented as proof of a "Machiavellian plan" against the Malians.

The former Prime Minister of IBK had already been accused by the Malian courts of "conspiracy against the government and undermining state security".

It was in the first months of the transition.

He and his co-defendants were

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