Lieutenant Colonel Abdoulaye Maïga (born 12 May 1981) is a

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an military officer currently serving as the government spokesman. He was temporarily appointed interim prime minister of

on 21 August 2022. Maïga is a lieutenant colonel in the Malian National Gendarmerie, 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

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(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

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who took power in the August 2020 Malian coup d'état. He is considered close to Goïta, and became "the voice of the policy of breaking with France and its allies" after the second coup d'état in May 2021. In June 2021 he was appointed Minister of Territorial Administration and Decentralisation, and on 1 December 2021 was also appointed spokesperson for the government. On 21 November 2024, Maïga was appointed by the junta as interim prime minister.

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