Karim Keïta (born 1979) is a Malian politician and businessman. He is a member of the

National Assembly In politics, a national assembly is either a unicameral legislature, the lower house of a bicameral legislature, or both houses of a bicameral legislature together. In the English language it generally means "an assembly composed of the repre ...

since 2013. Keïta is the son of former Malian President

Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta (; 29 January 1945 – 16 January 2022), often known by his initials IBK, was a Malian politician who served as the president of Mali from September 2013 to August 2020, when he was forced to resign in the 2020 Malian co ...

Career

Karim Keïta was born in 1979 in Paris, France, to

and Aminata Maïga. He studied in Belgium and Canada. After his return to Mali in 2006 he set up two companies, a rental car business and an investment advice firm. Keïta entered politics and was elected to the

as a candidate of the

Rally for Mali The Rally for Mali (French language, French: ''Rassemblement pour le Mali'') is a Malian political party created by Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta (a former president of Mali) in June 2001. In 2013, Keita was elected President of Mali following several ...

for Bamako II in the second round of the November–December 2013 parliamentary election. After his election he became Chairman of the Security and Defence Commission of the National Assembly. Keïta was re-elected during the

2020 Malian parliamentary election Parliamentary elections were held in Mali on 29 March 2020, with a second round on 19 April. They were initially scheduled to be held on 25 November and 16 December 2018, but were moved to April 2019 and then to June 2019, before being postponed ...

and obtained nearly 62% of the votes. On 13 July 2020 as a response to criticism directed at him during the

2020 Malian protests Protests in Mali began on 5 June 2020 when protesters gathered in the streets of Bamako, calling for Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta to resign as president of Mali. The protests ended after a coup d'état on 18 August. Both the president and prime mini ...

Keïta resigned as chairperson of the parliamentary defence committee. During the

2020 Malian coup d'état On 18 August 2020, elements of the Malian Armed Forces began a mutiny. Soldiers on pick-up trucks stormed the Soundiata military base in the town of Kati, where gunfire was exchanged before weapons were distributed from the armory and senior of ...

Keïta's house was reported to have been looted. He evaded arrest and was reported to have fled Mali to a neighboring country by late August. Keïta is married to a daughter of

Issaka Sidibé Issaka Sidibé (born 26 June 1946) is a Malian politician. Since 11 June 2020 he has been President of the High Court of Justice. He was President of the National Assembly of Mali between 22 January 2014 and 11 May 2020. Sidibé previously served ...

, former President of the National Assembly. On December 9, 2022, the US Treasury published a list of more than forty personalities targeted by sanctions for acts of corruption and human rights violations. Among the targets of the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), the financial control body of the Treasury Department is Karim Keït

References

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