Lieutenant Colonel Abdoulaye Maïga (born 12 May 1981) is a Malian military officer, he was appointed interim prime minister of

Mali Mali (; ), officially the Republic of Mali,, , ff, 𞤈𞤫𞤲𞥆𞤣𞤢𞥄𞤲𞤣𞤭 𞤃𞤢𞥄𞤤𞤭, Renndaandi Maali, italics=no, ar, جمهورية مالي, Jumhūriyyāt Mālī is a landlocked country in West Africa. Mali ...

on 21 August 2022. Maïga is a lieutenant colonel in the Malian National Gendarmerie r/sup>, which is a military force with law enforcement duties among the civilian population and is part of the

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. Maïga studied diplomacy and international law in Algiers. He studied defence and international security policies in Paris and "holds a doctorate in International Security and Defense from Jean Moulin Lyon 3 University of the 'ED 492' Doctoral School of Law." He also studied human rights and humanitarian law at what is now

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at Évry. Maïga started a doctorate in business law. He wrote a thesis on "the credibility of ECOWAS" to ensure peace and security. Maïga has worked in the Early Warning Directorate on the Prevention of Terrorism in

Economic Community of West African States The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS; also known as in French and Portuguese) is a regional political union, political and economic union of fifteen countries located in West Africa. Collectively, these countries comprise an ...

(ECOWAS). He worked as a police officer for

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(part of the United Nations mission to the

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). Maïga was not part of the group of officers led by Colonel

Assimi Goïta Colonel Assimi Goïta (born 1983) is a Malian military officer who has been interim President of Mali since 28 May 2021. Goïta was the leader of the , a military junta that seized power from former president Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta in the 20 ...

who took power in the August 2020 Malian coup d'état. But he is considered close to Colonel Goïta, and became "the voice of the policy of breaking with France and its allies" after the May 2021 Malian coup d'état. In June 2021 he was appointed Minister of Territorial Administration and Decentralisation, and on 1 December 2021 was also appointed spokesperson for the government.

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