4 decades in the past, Mali opposition leader Soumaïla Cissé was posing with previous U.S. Secretary of Condition Madeleine Albright at the Democratic Occasion conference, portion of an African delegation symbolizing the continent’s most notable democracy advocates.
Now the 70-calendar year-aged previous finance minister, IBM govt and Worldwide Monetary Fund board member is becoming held hostage by a jihadist group on the edge of the Sahara. 1 of Mali’s most notable community figures and a three-time presidential applicant, Mr. Cissé was snatched…